Australian and New Zealand journal of medicine
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While use of thrombolytic therapy in the management of acute myocardial infarction has become accepted practice in major teaching hospitals, its use in peripheral metropolitan hospitals has not been well accepted. ⋯ Thrombolytic therapy can be undertaken in the EDs of peripheral metropolitan hospitals in a safe and timely manner. There is little justification for routine medical escorts in the clinically stable post thrombolysis patient.