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Given the amount of time and effort that is being directed towards seeking an answer to the possible role of corticosteroids after head injury, it might seem rather perverse if parallel available guidelines for the management of spinal cord injury were not being followed. Primary angioplasty or prehospital thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction? [black right triangle] This multicentre French trial randomised patients with acute myocardial infarction to receive either prehospital thrombolysis (with transfer to a hospital with facilities for possible rescue angioplasty) or primary angioplasty.