The information collected by the nurse who is admitting a patient with chest pain suggests that the pain is caused by an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) the pain has persisted longer than 30 minutes.
A blood clot or other obstruction of the flow of blood to the heart muscle causes a heart attack. Angina. The term "angina" refers to chest pain brought on by inadequate cardiac blood supply. This is frequently brought on by the development of thick plaques on the inner walls of the arteries that supply the heart with blood.
AMI, more commonly known as a heart attack in layman's words, is most frequently brought on by a reduction or cessation of blood supply to a section of the heart, which results in the necrosis of heart muscle. Usually, a blood clot in the artery that supplies that region of the heart muscle causes this.
I believe she should put the patient's exact words in quotation marks on a document and turn in the document to any higher class medical staff member. That's the best I can give. I hope it helps!
