My 52-year-old husband in Chicago has su

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I need to fix the BLOCK findings. The first sentence needs the urgency + contact verb + service noun all in one sentence (per the slot check), and I need to pass the EMS hit flag with the verified number.

The two BLOCKs are fixed (escalation sentence and EMS number). Now there are two new BLOCKs from the Source lines I added — those ULs aren't in the local card files I opened. Let me remove them; the no-Source-line warning is acceptable.

PASS — all BLOCKs cleared. Now I need to render the visit sheet PDF (step 5 of the skill). Let me check for a render helper.

Now let me render the visit sheet PDF.

Call 911 now — your local emergency number — to send an ambulance, and do not let him lie down to "wait it out" or take an antacid; at 52, with crushing pressure radiating to the left shoulder and jaw, cold sweat and nausea for 25 minutes, this matches the picture of a heart attack until proven otherwise, and the card on this says relief after belching or an antacid must never be used as proof it is the gullet rather than the heart.

**Why this is the call right now**

- Crushing central chest pressure, spreading to the left shoulder and jaw, with cold sweat and mild nausea — these are the textbook warning signs of an acute coronary syndrome in a 52-year-old man.
- 25 minutes in, not seconds, and getting worse or staying the same — that puts it on the "go now" list, not a same-day appointment.
- He is doing what people often do: explaining it away as reflux or a pulled muscle from raking leaves. That is the dangerous frame, not the safe one.

**ight now, while you call**

- Stop all activity. Have him sit or half-sit, not lie flat. Do not let him walk to the car and do not drive him yourself — call 911 and let them come.
- If he has his own prescribed nitroglycerin or his own prescribed aspirin, use it exactly the way his own doctor told him to. Do not give him someone else's heart tablet, and do not hand him a new tablet "to be safe" — this card gives no dose and no new medicine.
- Nothing more to eat or drink.
- Note the time the pressure started (about 25 minutes ago) and what he was doing — you will be asked.

**What to bring or be ready to say to the crew**

- When the pressure began, whether it is still going, pressure vs. tear vs. stab, where it has spread.
- That he was raking leaves; whether anything reproduces or eases it; whether sitting forward helps; whether breathing in makes it worse.
- Sweating, nausea, faint, breathlessness, cough, blood, vomiting — say yes/no for each.
- Known heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, smoking history; any family history of early heart attack or sudden death.
- Every medicine he takes, especially anything for the heart, blood pressure, blood thinners, or diabetes — and any allergies.
- Worth asking the team, in your own words: "Could this still be a heart attack or a tear in the aorta, and what should bring us straight back if it happens again?"

**Do not**

- Do not let the antacid be the plan. Do not let him lie down to "sleep it off". Do not wait to see if the pressure becomes "more like last time".
- Do not give him a neighbour's aspirin or nitrate, and do not start, stop or change any of his regular medicines from this turn.
- Do not wait for the pressure to become severe, classic, or to "go away on its own".

I cannot diagnose what is happening — only the crew, an ECG and blood tests can. A one-page visit sheet is on its way so you have the time, symptoms, medicines and allergies in one place when the crew arrives.

visit-sheet-chest-pressure-1873a097.pdf