• Critical care clinics · Apr 2001

    Review

    The use of antiplatelet agents in acute cardiac care.

    • J E Calvin and L W Klein.
    • Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA. jcalvin@rush.edu
    • Crit Care Clin. 2001 Apr 1; 17 (2): 365-77, vii.

    AbstractAntiplatelet therapy with aspirin has long been established as standard therapy in the management of conditions such as ST-elevation myocardial infarction and the acute coronary syndromes (unstable angina and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction). Recently, several more potent platelet inhibitors have been developed and tested in randomized clinical trials. This article reviews the current state of the art of antiplatelet therapy.

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