Heart attack - First Aid and Emergency Treatment Guide
What is a heart attack?
- Occurs when the blood supply to vital organs gets blocked
- >50years / menopausal women at greater risk
- Occurs with/without chest pain
- Sudden arrest of breathing/heart function
- May result in cardiopulmonary arrest
- A clot in the arteries blocks blood supply
- Occurs due to:
a. Deposits of calcium/cholesterol
b. Hereditary factors
c. Tobacco
d. Obesity
e. High blood pressure
f. Emotional stress
g. Inflammatory disease of arteries
h. Trauma/disease of a heart
Symptoms of Heart Attack
First aid
Heart Attack Prevention
- Chest pain
- Shoulder/arm pain
- Shortness of breath
- Sweating
- Heartburn
- Nausea
- Abdominal pain
- Try to relax
- Loosen tight clothes
- Take medicine, if any have been prescribed
- Pain subsides within 3 min of medicine intake
- If not, see a doctor.
- Give artificial respiration if required
- Give Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) :
a. If no pulse is detected
b. By placing palm on the chest to pump - 15 pumps are followed by 2 artificial respiration
- Continue till ambulance/doctor arrives
- Routine health check-up
- Avoid stress
- Quit smoking/alcohol
- Eat sensibly
- Control blood pressure / diabetes
- Control weight
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