Intensive education of patients and physicians helps to increase the incidence of thrombolytic therapy in patients with myocardial infarction. Important factors in this process are: 1. Reduced delays in patients' awareness of the severity of his symptoms, 2. shorter time periods from patients' hospital admission to the initiation of thrombolytic therapy, 3. more indications by educated physicians with a higher degree of precision, and 4. reduced catalogue of contraindications.