Healthy Life Journal

Heart attack is a medical emergency. Do not delay seeking medical help because in this situation every time racing with damage to heart muscle and can cause complications or even death.

The main symptoms of heart attack is a strong feeling depressed or squeeze in the chest. This distress could spread to the neck and sometimes accompanied by cold sweat and feeling weak. “If these conditions a person must appear suspicious if he had a heart attack, especially if that person has risk factors, such as smoking or having diabetes,” said dr.Santoso Karo Karo, Sp.JP, from RS.Jantung Harapan Kita Jakarta.

Santoso explained, in the first five minutes, people who suffer a heart attack should immediately seek medical help. “Go to the hospital, not a place for practicing physicians in the hospital is available the support needed to limit damage to heart,” he said on the sidelines of a heart health event at the Heart Foundation of Indonesia, Wednesday (4/8/10).

When the distance between the hospital and the patient is too far away, heart attack patients can be helped by chewing emergency four tablets of aspirin. Anticoagulant drugs such as aspirin or heparin is no longer going to make blood clots forming.

“For people who have risk factors or a history of heart attack, aspirin should always carry anywhere. As soon as the attack came, directly chew-chew, not swallow them with water,” said Santoso.

In the book Mayo Clinic Family Health Book is mentioned, in the early minutes so the heart attack, ventricular fibrillation will occur. Unstable cardiac rhythm raises the heart rate and ineffective quivering of the heart muscle without benefits. Without immediate treatment, ventricular fibrillation will lead to sudden death.

Handling first heart attack is the use of AEDs (automatic external defribrillators). Penangangan will then be performed in hospitals, including the provision of drugs to restore blood flow to the heart, such as aspirin.

In the case of a heart attack, according to Santoso, there is the golden (golden period) to save lives. “Within 20 minutes after the heart attack patients should be helped. But the crucial first five minutes the patient should be suspicious so they can seek help,” he said.

Which must be recognized is a heart attack sometimes appear without the typical pattern. “It could also be a pain in the ribs or the stomach so it is often mistaken for heartburn. Feeling depressed also often mistaken for common colds so often brought late to hospital,” he explained.

In some people, the main symptoms of heart attack is a sudden onset of shortness of breath or can not follow the chest pains. There is also a heart attack with only faint symptoms of a sudden. Most importantly, be vigilant, especially when you have a family history of heart disease, smoking, having high cholesterol, or diabetes.