Patient history
The first data box under patient history is for age. Enter the patient's age at the time of the heart attack hospitalization. For infants under 11 months, enter zero; for all patients, enter the age in whole years.
After the age box, patient history contains a group of four check boxes covering prior medical episodes or conditions. To mark a box, click on it or hit the space bar, depending on your browser. If the patient has a history of angina (chest pain that is relieved by nitroglycerin or rest) or MI (heart attack), check the appropriate box.
If the patient has a history of congestive heart failure (CHF), check the appropriate box. Other terms for CHF include cardiac asthma, congestive cardiomyopathy, and lung edema.
If the patient had a coronary angioplasty procedure within the five years prior to the heart attack, check the appropriate box. Coronary angioplasty is also referred to as PTCA.
If the patient has a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack
(TIA), check the appropriate box. Other terms for stroke or TIA
include amaurosis fugax, cerebral vascular accident (CVA), subdural
hematoma (excluding the condition caused by trauma), brain hemorrhage
(excluding the condition caused by trauma), brain infarction,
vertebro-basilar insufficiency, brain occlusion, reversible ischemic
neurologic disorder (RIND), and brain thrombosis.
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