WHAT TO DO?
Friends
if your age is more than 45 years and you have diabetes and high blood pressure
with a family history of heart diseases then read the following. If you suffer
from a central chest pain lasting for more than five minutes, associated with
sweating or weakness or palpitation or breathlessness, jaw pain or pain in neck
or fingers then you most lie down quietly. Call an ambulance. Do not
panicky.Donot clime staircase or walk down a stair case. You have a serious
problem. If possible take a tablet of dispirin (325mg) in half a cup of water.
50% heart attack patients die
before they reach a hospital. Ten 10% die on the road in ambulance. Another 5
to 10% die in casualty. Hardly 25% survive a massive heart attack if admitted
in time to ICU. First 24 hours of a heart attack are the most critical. With
the use of modern day interventions, the death rate from a heart attack has
been brought down to around 5% in patients who are hospitalized with a heart
attack. Remember modern interventions kill more patients then it saves it. It's important for
people with coronary artery disease to understand, that angioplasty with
stenting in stable patients does not prevent future heart attacks.
... Stents usually are used to open such large plaques when they cause
symptoms by limiting blood flow. Remember it’s the life style
change-diet—morning walk and mental change after being discharged from hospital
which prolongs life, not the surgery or the stents.
For more
information ask your cardiologist. Please do behave like a cardiologist because
you had a heart attack or you have a Google in hand!
Sanjoy
Kumar Satpathy
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