Prehospital Thrombolysis in Acute Myocardial Infarction Joachim Schafer, MD, Jochen Biittner, MD, Gabriele Geng, BS, Klaus Gutschmidt, MD, Hans N. Herden, MD, Detlef G. Mathey, MD, Heinz P. Moecke, MD, Peter Polster, MD, Alexander Raftopoulo, MD, Florence H. Sheehan, MD, and Peter Voelz, MD

The benefit and risk of prehospital thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were evaluated in a double-blind randomized trial. Patients presenting