| Often heart attack is slowly with mild pain | | | | So, if you address as quickly as possible to |
| and the person in cause doesn't understand | | | | a medical emergency or service you have |
| what's happening, on the other hand the | | | | greater chances of receiving the |
| heart attack might be intense and movie-like. | | | | corresponding treatment and the doctor will |
| If you suspect you are having an heart attack | | | | have the possibility to establish exactly |
| than you need to call the emergency or 911. | | | | what you suffer from, sometimes heart attack |
| | | | symptoms are very similar to other disease |
| The most common signs are: chest discomfort | | | | symptoms and may be mistaken. That's why is |
| which may be felt as pain, pressure, | | | | indicated to present to the hospital and have |
| squeezing, fullness and which may last for | | | | EKG done and blood analysis and so on. If you |
| minutes. Other symptoms are: pain in both | | | | get help during that first hour, your chances |
| arms, neck, stomach, back, shortness of | | | | of recovery are greatly improved. Many heart |
| breath, nausea, cold sweating. The most | | | | problems are silent, without symptoms, and go |
| common symptoms in heart attack in women is | | | | unnoticed until they become the cause of |
| discomfort and chest pain, but it may also | | | | sudden death. And most victims are older men. |
| appear as well nausea, shortness of breath | | | | |
| and back pain. In 5 minutes since those | | | | Heart attack is one instance where getting |
| symptoms have begun one must address to the | | | | treatment promptly can mean the difference |
| emergency medical service at 911. If you | | | | between life and death. Heart attacks may |
| announce the ambulance you'll receive the | | | | vary from person to person, and from heart |
| best care against heart attack and in the | | | | attack to heart attack. A great mistake is |
| shortest time. You should't be driving by | | | | the delaying the treatment and the |
| yourself unless you have no other option. | | | | presentation to the hospital. Heart |
| | | | discomfort is rarely a sharp, stabbing pain. |
| The doctor will diagnose the heart attack | | | | But further ischemia or another heart attack, |
| after studying several tests: EKG a device | | | | even a mild to moderate one, may prove fatal |
| that gives the graphical record of the | | | | because that reserve capacity is no longer |
| heart's electrical activity, a physical | | | | there. |
| examination and knowing the complete medical | | | | |
| history of the patient, high enzymes in the | | | | Risk factors include some you can't control: |
| blood appear in heart attack, those steps | | | | your age, sex and genetic predisposition to |
| are also helpfull. Cardiac enzymes may be | | | | atherosclerosis and those you can influence, |
| determined later in the intensive care unit | | | | like diabetes, high blood pressure, high |
| and urgent care setting so they confirm or | | | | blood cholesterol, smoking, lack of exercise |
| infirm the suspicions. | | | | and obesity. |
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