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Abstract

A device for initiating reperfusion treatment of a coronary prone individual prior to the establishment of qualified direct contact personal care at a time during the early minutes or hours after the onset of heart attack symptoms and after qualified personnel have participated by telephone in the decision to initiate such treatment. The device comprises an automatic injector assembly including a releasable force applying assembly, a safety normally disposed in a release preventing position movable therefrom into a release permitting position, a container or containers for separately containing a plurality of separate medicament dosages including a first dosage containing a clot selective coronary thrombolytic agent and a separate second dosage containing a cardiac antiarrhythmic agent and one or more hypodermic needles. The automatic injector is operable in response to a predetermined manual actuating procedure including the movement of the safety into its release permitting position for effecting release of the releasable force applying assembly and causing the released force to be applied so as to effect the movement of the hypodermic needle or needles into the muscle tissue of the individual and the flow of the separate medicament dosages outwardly from the container or containers through the hypodermic needle or needles into the muscle tissue of the individual.

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