Myocardial Infarction

Upon reading the research article “Influence of Smoking on the Location of Acute Myocardial Infarctions” by Rahel Alemu, Eileen Fuller, John Harper and Mark Feldman it has become ostensible that smoking cigarettes increases the risk for acute myocardial infarctions. While smoking is a major risk factor in coronary heart disease as well as one of the major predictors of leading to myocardial infarctions. However there was not an awareness that smoking lead to different types of myocardial infarctions as in the difference between an anterior or an inferior myocardial infarction. This article outlines the study “to determine whether there is an association between smoking and the location of acute myocardial infarctions” (Alemu, Fuller, Harper, and Feldman. Page 1). Not only is the study trying to pinpoint a separation in risk to inferior or anterior myocardial infarctions, they were able to conclude that cigarette smoking adversely affects the right coronary arterial circulation more than it does the left side (Alemu et al, Page 1).
While there are many core measures for myocardial infarctions, for the purpose of this paper the focus will be on smoking cessation. According the interventions for smoking cessation clients are to be screened upon admittance on tobacco use. This will include how often they smoke, how much they smoke, the type they smoked, and if they have quit the date of smoking cessation. The next thing that is required of the staff is to offer smoking cessation education with the option for tobacco cessation medications and counseling within three days upon admission. Then at discharge the client will be given smoking cessation follow up appointments with counselors and the smoking cessation medications reconciliation (The Joint