Mercator’s Bargain

Written By Frédéric Caruso

The millimeter criteria are the same kind of object. They were an excellent answer to the question of who gets a thrombolytic in 1986 and a poor answer to the question of whose artery is closed right now. We inherited the projection and we keep teaching it as the territory, and 1 in 3 of the patients we file under not-occluded is sitting on the wrong part of the map.

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Thanks to the authors.

Regards,

Frédéric Caruso
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