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A 64-year-old man presents to his GP with 30 minutes of crushing central chest pain radiating to his left arm. He is pale and clammy but haemodynamically stable. The practice has oxygen, sublingual glyceryl trinitrate and aspirin available, but no ECG machine. Ambulance has been called. What is the single most important immediate pharmacological intervention in the practice?

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