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Use of Thrombolytics with STEMI | April 26, 2023

Date of Presentation: April 26, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Emergency Medicine with Rural and Indigenous Communities/IHS  

Keywords: #emergency department  #stemi  #thrombolytics  

In this session, Dr. Dan Schnorr, EM Medical Director at San Carlos Apache Healthcare in Arizona, and Dr. Randall Ellis, EM physician at San Carlos Apache Healthcare and member of the IHS EM Chief Clinical Consultant Core Group, lead a discussion with Dr. Steve Humphrey, Cardiologist, focused on the use of thrombolytics with STEMI in the Emergency Department. The panel of inter-professional faculty members discuss thrombolytic agents available for use in STEMI and their mechanisms, indications for thrombolytic use in STEMI, absolute and relative contraindications for thrombolytics, reperfusion rhythms, post-thrombolytic care and possible complications and management.

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Presented by:

Dan Schnorr, MD | Randall Ellis, MD, MPH, MBA | Steve Humphrey, MD, FAAC

Randall Ellis, MD, MPH, MBA, is an EM physician at San Carlos Apache Healthcare in Arizona.  He is a member of the IHS Emergency Medicine Chief Clinical Consultant Core Group.  He is also Associate Director of Emergency Medicine Programs with Seed Global Health helping to promote emergency medicine development in Uganda.

Dan Schnorr, MD, is a researcher for the Infectious Diseases and Epidemics Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. His research focuses on mitigating the impact of SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious pathogens through home-based care and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) innovations in the Dominican Republic and Honduras. He is a physician and current Emergency Department Director for the San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation in eastern Arizona. Prior to joining the HHI team, Dan worked for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in South Sudan, DR Congo, Guinea-Bissau and Mediterranean search and rescue. His clinical background also includes work in Haiti and Malawi and experience with a range of tropical and infectious diseases including Ebola virus disease, cholera, kala-azar, tuberculosis and malaria. As a Fogarty Clinical Research Scholar, he launched a prospective cohort study examining cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Brazil. Dan trained in emergency medicine at Highland Hospital in Oakland. He later completed a fellowship in global emergency care and humanitarian studies at Brigham and Women’s Hospital while earning an MPH from Harvard

Stephen H. Humphrey, MD, FACC, finished Davidson College in 1968, and graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1973. He trained in internal medicine at the Baylor Affiliated HospitaIs in Houston, and completed his training in cardiology at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. At the completion of his military service in 1981, he joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine as an associate professor of internal medicine and cardiology. He later entered private practice but until his retirement remained active as a clinical professor of cardiology teaching medical students, residents and cardiology fellows at USC. Since retiring from private practice in 2006, he and his wife and have served as physicians and volunteer faculty in the Niger Republic, Nicaragua, Ecuador, in Tanzania with the Global Health Service Partnership (Peace Corps), and in Uganda with Seed Global Health. He and his wife now reside in Traverse City, MI. His special interest in teaching has been finding ways to make cardiac pathophysiology and therapeutics understandable and enjoyable, helping primary care physicians become effective clinical cardiologists.

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Date added: April 24, 2023