By the fifth day the patient is walking approximately 100 feet, two or three times daily. By the 7th to 10th day, the patient has been supervised while walking up one flight of stairs and should have had a stroll on the treadmill to reach a heart rate of 120 beats per minute. This modified stress test is repeated in 6–10 weeks and decisions are then made regarding further medical treatment, angio-plasty, or bypass surgery if the decision was not made prior to discharge. In many patients percutaneous intervention (PCI) involving angioplasty and intracoronary stent would have been done during day one.
Discharge from the hospital is usually on the fifth or sixth day, but in many hospitals worldwide discharge is on the third or fourth day, particularly if PCI was successful.

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