The patient is a 62-year-old white male with a long-standing hypotension of 30 to 40 mmHg who is treated with hypoglycemics and has a significant history of diabetes of 20 years without neurological or retinopathy. He also has a positive family history of cardiac risk factors and denies cigarettes. He had a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty at the Ribush Bassta Syark Hospital in 1985 and has had rule outs for myocardial infarction since, with the last one approximately in 1990 at Dormro General Hospital. At 1:00 a.m., the patient had recurrent chest pain and took four to five Nitroglycerins without relief and was front-loaded with TPA, Heparin, Aspirin, Morphine sulfate, and Nifedipine. The patient was placed on an intra-aortic balloon pump in preparation for coronary artery bypass surgery and was discharged on prophylactic anticoagulation with Coumadin, taking Diltiazem 60 t.i.d., Glyburide, and Lisinopril 20 PO q.day. The patient had a coronary artery bypass graft x three with a saphenous vein graft to the LAD, first branch of the obtuse marginal and the posterior descending artery. On postoperative day #3, the patient had atrial fibrillation which was treated and controlled pharmacologically, and he was requested to follow-up with Dr. Schoening in 6 weeks and his cardiologist in 2 weeks.
has the patient had diltiazem
taking Diltiazem 60 t.i.d.,