How to recognize Heart Attack

[jedi1412]

More than 300,000 heart attack victims die each year before they reach the hospital. Don't make the same fatal mistake. Know the warning signs.

While symptoms of heart attack can vary, here are the most common. If you experience any of the following for 2 minutes or more, call your local emergency medical service immediately, or get to the nearest hospital or cardiac-care unit as soon as possible.

A pain in the centre of the chest that can range from a mild feeling of tightness to an agonizing, crushing sensation.
Pain that comes on suddenly or appears gradually, and which may be continuous or intermittent, fading then returning every few minutes.
Pain that spreads to the shoulders, arms, jaw, neck, or stomach.
Possible dizziness, sweating, fainting, nausea, shortness of breath, chills or a feeling of severe indigestion, with or without the pains mentioned above.
It is important to know about these fact to save your life and also for your healthy life.

 

[Jughead]

That is why it's important to get a check up at least once a year with your family physician. As part of the examination he'll/she'll check your heart rate, blood pressure, and ask questions about any chest pains, shortness of breath ...etc).

 

[HenryBHough]

I can think of two people who died of heart attacks within 24 hours of having been given big smiley faces for cardiac health by their doctors.

 

[Mr. H.]

I used to get fairly frequent chest pains. So I divorced the bitch.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Unless alergic, or otherwise shouldn't take blood-thinners (usually because you're already on something doing that,) everyone else should take a daily low-dose asprin. Thins the blood for a time enabling it flow around the body more freely and efficiently. Also is evidence showing how it reduces by as much as a third the chance of several cancers and other life-threatening conditions.

 

[BlackSand]

See your doctor and check your blood pressure regularly ... You are not invincible.
There is no age limit on heart attacks ... Get to know the symptoms ... Know what to do and when to call 911.

Edit:
Stop smoking and eating all that crap too.

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[Delta4Embassy]

Risk to Benefit Assesment of daily low-dose aspirin,
Is low-dose aspirin safe for you? - Harvard Health Publications

Significant Caution about stopping a daily low-dose aspirin regime,
"What happens if you stop taking aspirin every day?"
Daily aspirin therapy: Understand the benefits and risks - Mayo Clinic

"You might be surprised to learn that stopping daily aspirin therapy can have a rebound effect that may increase your risk of heart attack. If you have had a heart attack or a stent placed in one or more of your heart arteries, stopping daily aspirin therapy can lead to a life-threatening heart attack. If you've been taking daily aspirin therapy and want to stop, it's important to talk to your doctor before making any changes. Suddenly stopping daily aspirin therapy could have a rebound effect that may trigger a blood clot."

Low-Dose Asprin anti-cancer findings
New Evidence That Aspirin May Prevent Cancer - Forbes

"Taking a low dose of aspirin every day could have the potential to prevent breast cancer or stop it in its tracks.

That was the news over the weekend from the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Boston, where a team of researchers from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center presented evidence demonstrating the effects of aspirin against two types of breast cancer."

Women's anti-cancer low-dose Asprin article,
The Surprising Health Benefits of Aspirin | Women's Health Magazine

 

[waltky]

New test rules out heart attack for chest pain...

Test accurately rules out heart attacks in the ER
30 Mar.`14 WASHINGTON (AP) — A simple test appears very good at ruling out heart attacks in people who go to emergency rooms with chest pain, a big public health issue and a huge worry for patients.

A large study in Sweden found that the blood test plus the usual electrocardiogram of the heartbeat were 99 percent accurate at showing which patients could safely be sent home rather than be admitted for observation and more diagnostics. Of nearly 9,000 patients judged low risk by the blood test and with normal electrocardiograms, only 15 went on to suffer a heart attack in the next month, and not a single one died. "We believe that with this strategy, 20 to 25 percent of admissions to hospitals for chest pain may be avoided," said Dr. Nadia Bandstein of the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. She helped lead the study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and presented Sunday at the cardiology college's annual conference in Washington.

Chest pain sends more than 15 million people to emergency rooms in the United States and Europe each year, and it usually turns out to be due to anxiety, indigestion or other less-serious things than a heart attack. Yet doctors don't want to miss one — about 2 percent of patients having heart attacks are mistakenly sent home. People may feel reassured by being admitted to a hospital so doctors can keep an eye on them, but that raises the risk of picking up an infection and having expensive care they'll have to pay a share of, plus unnecessary tests.

The study included nearly 15,000 people who went to the Karolinska University hospital with chest pains over two years. About 8,900 had low scores on a faster, more sensitive blood test for troponin, a substance that's a sign of heart damage. The test has been available in Europe, Asia and Canada for about three years, but it is not yet available in the United States. The patients were 47 years old on average and 4 percent had a previous heart attack. About 21 percent of them wound up being admitted. Researchers later looked back to see how the blood test and electrocardiogram would have predicted how they fared over the next month. They figured that in order to find one heart attack in patients like this, 594 would have to be admitted — a huge waste of resources.

A test like this would be "enormously useful," and the study's results are "almost too good to be true," said Dr. Judd Hollander, an emergency medicine specialist at the University of Pennsylvania. He believes the test should be available in the U.S. and that the amount of evidence that regulators are requiring to approve it is too high. Dr. Allan Jaffe, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, said the problem is not what the test rules out, but what it might falsely rule in. It's so sensitive that it can pick up troponin from heart failure and other problems and cause unnecessary tests for that. "I think the strategy long-term will be proven," but more studies underway now in the U.S. are needed to show that, he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/test-accurately-rules-heart-attacks-er-171956221.html

 

[Darkwind]

That is why it's important to get a check up at least once a year with your family physician. As part of the examination he'll/she'll check your heart rate, blood pressure, and ask questions about any chest pains, shortness of breath ...etc).

I check My blood pressure twice a week at home....

ALWAYS before I log onto USMB.................

 

[Toro]

Unless alergic, or otherwise shouldn't take blood-thinners (usually because you're already on something doing that,) everyone else should take a daily low-dose asprin. Thins the blood for a time enabling it flow around the body more freely and efficiently. Also is evidence showing how it reduces by as much as a third the chance of several cancers and other life-threatening conditions.

That's why I drink scotch every day.

Well, one of the reasons.

Honestly, it's way down the list, but hey, I'll take it!

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Unless alergic, or otherwise shouldn't take blood-thinners (usually because you're already on something doing that,) everyone else should take a daily low-dose asprin. Thins the blood for a time enabling it flow around the body more freely and efficiently. Also is evidence showing how it reduces by as much as a third the chance of several cancers and other life-threatening conditions.

I thought problems had surfaced regarding taking the daily low-dose aspirin and they aren't recommending it so much anymore? Sorry, don't have time to research it right now, but I could've sworn that's what I read. Which is why I don't take it.

 

[Kooshdakhaa]

Ah, here we go:

Aspirin suppresses the formation of blood clots, the villains behind heart attacks and most strokes. But in doing so, aspirin boosts the risk for bleeding in the stomach and brain. The critical question is whether the risk of cardiovascular disease outweighs the risk of bleeding. Right now, the answer is not simple.

For people who have already had a heart attack, the benefits of preventive aspirin comfortably outweigh the risk of major bleeding. For every six in whom aspirin prevents a heart attack or other cardiovascular problem, one person on aspirin experiences a bleeding episode.

"If somebody already has evidence of cardiovascular disease, there's no question he or she should be on an aspirin unless there are some major bleeding issues or an allergy that prevents taking aspirin," Dr. Bhatt says.

Healing the well?

Many people taking aspirin have not yet had heart problems, although they may have some risk factors, like high cholesterol or being overweight. When they take aspirin to prevent heart disease from happening, more of them pay a price. On average, aspirin helps only about two people for every one harmed. The balance is unfavorable enough that European cardiologists don't recommend preventive aspirin for otherwise healthy people.

Everyone is different. That's why it's important to discuss the pros and cons of aspirin with a doctor before taking a low-dose tablet a day.

Is taking a daily low-dose aspirin safe for you? -- Harvard Health Publications - Harvard Health Publications

My Dad suffered a major hemorraghic stroke. So I don't feel comfortable taking something that may cause bleeding in the brain. That was when he was about 76. He survived with little damage, except some fairly minor problems with his eyesight. He did end up having a major heart attack when he was 86. He lived a few months beyond that. I'm not sure it was the heart attack that killed him, though, I don't think he had much interest in living anymore.

Anyway, sometimes you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

 

[waltky]

Pauses for rescue breathing in heart attacks works better than compressions alone...

Chest compressions interrupted for rescue breathing saves more lives
Nov. 10, 2015 - Although the difference was slight, 1 percent of patients fared better after getting CPR with ventilation -- a significant amount when considering life and death.

Although the difference was not large, a new study found patients given cardiopulmonary resuscitation with pauses for ventilation during chest compressions survived to be discharged from the hospital more often and had better outcomes during the next 30 days than patients who were given CPR without the pauses. Researchers think pausing compressions for ventilation is beneficial because it causes improved blood flow and oxygenation. Although standard CPR calls for ventilation, providing CPR with or without rescue breathing is acceptable.

The study focused on emergency staff providing CPR at the scene or on the way to the hospital -- either with ventilation provided by a bag valve mask or not -- not bystanders responding to a sudden situation. Bystanders generally perform continuous chest compressions until paramedics arrive to provide treatment. "Current CPR guidelines permit use of either continuous chest compressions or interrupted chest compressions with ventilations by EMS providers," Dr. Graham Nichol, director of the University of Washington-Harborview Center for Prehospital Emergency Care, said in a press release. "Our trial shows that both types of CPR achieve good outcomes, but that compressions with pauses for ventilations appears to be a bit better."

Bystanders are recommended to provide CPR with only chest compressions, researchers said, as the study was focused on EMS treatment at the scene and on the way to the hospital.​

Researchers compared survival rates for 23,709 adults who had cardiac arrest and were treated by 114 emergency agencies between June 2011 and May 2015. About half the patients received continuous compressions and the rest received compressions with pauses for ventilation. The data showed 8.9 percent of patients who received continuous compressions survived to be discharged from the hospital, compared to 9.7 percent receiving CPR with ventilation. Patients receiving ventilation also had more days alive outside the hospital in the month after a heart attack. Additionally, the researchers found 7.7 percent of patients who received ventilation had favorable neurological function scores on the Rankin scale, as opposed to 7 percent of the group not receiving ventilation.

Although differences between the groups of patients were not large, researchers said the slight difference is significant in terms of life and may lead to changes in guidelines for CPR depending on the situation at hand. "This is the first randomized trial to show a significant difference in outcomes after hospital admission among patients treated for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest," Nichol said in a press release. "We can improve outcomes for this common health condition. We believe that this study is a significant step in that direction." The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Chest compressions interrupted for rescue breathing saves more lives

 

[Muhammed]

If I started getting massive pain in my chest and the left side of my neck of fucking course I'm going to presume it's a heart attack and dial 911 immediately.

 

[Muhammed]

Ah, here we go:

Aspirin suppresses the formation of blood clots, the villains behind heart attacks and most strokes. But in doing so, aspirin boosts the risk for bleeding in the stomach and brain. The critical question is whether the risk of cardiovascular disease outweighs the risk of bleeding. Right now, the answer is not simple.

For people who have already had a heart attack, the benefits of preventive aspirin comfortably outweigh the risk of major bleeding. For every six in whom aspirin prevents a heart attack or other cardiovascular problem, one person on aspirin experiences a bleeding episode.

"If somebody already has evidence of cardiovascular disease, there's no question he or she should be on an aspirin unless there are some major bleeding issues or an allergy that prevents taking aspirin," Dr. Bhatt says.

Healing the well?

Many people taking aspirin have not yet had heart problems, although they may have some risk factors, like high cholesterol or being overweight. When they take aspirin to prevent heart disease from happening, more of them pay a price. On average, aspirin helps only about two people for every one harmed. The balance is unfavorable enough that European cardiologists don't recommend preventive aspirin for otherwise healthy people.

Everyone is different. That's why it's important to discuss the pros and cons of aspirin with a doctor before taking a low-dose tablet a day.

Is taking a daily low-dose aspirin safe for you? -- Harvard Health Publications - Harvard Health Publications

My Dad suffered a major hemorraghic stroke. So I don't feel comfortable taking something that may cause bleeding in the brain. That was when he was about 76. He survived with little damage, except some fairly minor problems with his eyesight. He did end up having a major heart attack when he was 86. He lived a few months beyond that. I'm not sure it was the heart attack that killed him, though, I don't think he had much interest in living anymore.

Anyway, sometimes you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Aspirin can cause some serious side effects. It can really fuck you up. A friend of mine died from aspirin when he was only in the 7th grade. It's no joke.

In the case of a suspected heart attack a 911 dispatcher may tell you to take a low dose of aspirin (250mg) while the EMTs are on the way unless you have a sublingual nitroglycerin tablet, which you probably don't have handy unless you've had a heart attack or 4 in the past or live with your 117 year old grandpa.

But generally aspirin should be avoided. It fucks up your internal organs and can cause bogus painful shit like internal bleeding and pancreatic cancer.