Pearls & Pitfalls Although fibrinolytic drugs can help patients with STEMI, they are not beneficial in unstable angina Rehabilitation and post-discharge treatment Functional evaluation Changes in lifestyle: Regular exercise, diet modification, weight loss, smoking cessation Drugs: Continuation of antiplatelet drugs, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, and statins Patients who did not have coronary angiography during admission, have no high-risk features (eg, heart failure, recurrent angina, ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation after 24 hours, mechanical complications such as new murmurs, shock), and have an ejection fraction > 40% usually should have stress testing of some sort before or shortly after discharge.