Glyceryl trinitrate is useful for acute myocardial infarction ( heart attack ) and pulmonary edema, again working best if used quickly, within a few minutes of symptom onset, as a pulse dose.
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ACPs are competent in many emergency medical skills, including airway management ( intravenous cannulation, fluid replacement ), and the administration of basic and advanced drugs ( aspirin, glucose, glyceryl trinitrate, adrenaline, morphine etc . ).
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Several studies have shown that migraines without aura develop in most subjects after the infusion of glyceryl trinitrate ( GTN, well known as nitroglycerin ), which is known to transport NO to tissues, but only in patients who are migraine sufferers.
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Today on my way to a ward another phlebotomist was tellin gme that one day she was having problems finding a vein on a larger gentleman and that a young doctor gave her a spray bottle of Glyceryl Trinitrate / Nitroglycerine and sprayed it on the venipuncture site and Ta-da, the veins popped up.
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He began treating patients with small doses in 1878, and the substance was soon adopted into widespread use after he published his results in " The Lancet " in 1879 . The medical establishment used the name " glyceryl trinitrate " or " trinitrin " to avoid alarming patients, who knew that nitroglycerin was explosive.
