Mr. Legions is a 54 year old professor who presented to Menjack Hospital Medical Center with recurrent substernal chest pain one day after coronary artery bypass graft (5 vessel bypass) 8 years ago. His coronary risk factors include a positive family history and a previous diagnosis of hyperlipidemia. He was given Lovastatin 40 mg q q.m. and 20 mg q p.m., as well as enteric-coated aspirin one tablet q day. At Skaggssin Hospital, he was given IV nitroglycerin, IV heparin, Nifedipine SL, and morphine, in addition to aspirin and Lovastatin. The patient's pain was relieved with four sublingual nitroglycerin and an EKG demonstrated one sublingual nitroglycerin and these EKG changes resolved. He was treated symptomatically with Tylenol and started on Biaxin 500 mg po bid, and also received a five day course of oral Biaxin with Cholestyramine one packet po q hs, Lopressor 50 mg po tid, and Sublingual nitroglycerin 1/150 tablets to be taken prn. The patient had episodes of fever, achieving a maximum temperature of 101.4, and a chest x-ray on 0/26/95 demonstrated evidence of early congestive heart failure. The patient was treated with daily doses of IV Lasix with resolution of his rales. He was admitted to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit on IV heparin and nitroglycerine as well as continuation of his aspirin and Lovastatin. His pain was treated with morphine sulfate and relieved with four sublingual nitroglycerin. An EKG demonstrated one sublingual nitroglycerin and these EKG changes resolved. After 24 hours pain-free, the patient was transferred to the Cardiac Step-Down floor and the IV nitroglycerin and IV heparin were discontinued. An echocardiogram demonstrated inferior and posterior hypokinesis with an ejection fraction of approximately 46%, and the patient underwent a submax MIBI to assess coronary perfusion of the heart. The exercise component of this examination demonstrated EKG changes consistent with ischemic coronary flow. Nuclear imaging demonstrated a fixed apical lateral defect in the patient's heart consistent with a healed or healing transmural infarct. The patient also complained of progressive anterior and lateral thigh pain, symptoms consistent with an upper respiratory viral infection, and rales 4 to 5 cm above the bases bilaterally. He was discharged to home with followup in MERH under Drs. Dwayne Ariel Bremme with the medications Enteric-coated aspirin 325 mg po q day, Cholestyramine one packet po q hs, Lovastatin 20 mg po q hs, Lopressor 50 mg po tid, and Sublingual nitroglycerin 1/150 tablets to be taken prn with chest pain.
Was the patient ever given medication for his pain
The patient's pain was relieved with four sublingual nitroglycerin and an EKG demonstrated