How to Respond if someone you know have a heart attack!
What is the more important water or sleep?
Both
Whats the most common Heart attack symptom
Chest pain.
What type of treatment should be done?
Rehabilitation
What is the most common age for heart attacks.
You are age 40 to 75. You have high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, or you smoke.
What type of thing should you avoid in your diet to help prevent heart attacks?
cholesterol
This in turn helps the blood and the heart function better without the extra cholesterol holding it down!
What might the patient experience when they are suffering a heart attack?
Feeling weak, light-headed, or faint. You may also break out into a cold sweat.
What type of treatment should be done? 2
Inpatient care
Life expectancy after heart attack?
5 years if the heart attack was severe depending if changes where not made.
What types of things can strengthen your heart?
Exercise!
Where might pain also be when having the heart attack?
Pain or discomfort in the jaw, neck, or back.
Pain or discomfort in one or both arms or shoulders.
What type of treatment should be done? 3
Clinical trial
Radiation therapy
The prognosis for heart attacks vary depending on the cause of the heart attacks. And if they follow the average type heart attacks they have a 25% chance of dying 2 years later.
How can you help yourself in preventing heart attacks?
Look at your family history and seek medical advice and find out the chances.
If the patient is starting to feel a heavy weight within their chest what can you check to r/o a heart attack?
EKG
What type of treatment should be done? 4
Chemotherapy/Infusion
And what is one thing you can stop to help avoid heart attacks?
Stop smoking
And what are the most common but important symptoms to track?
Shortness of breath. This often comes along with chest discomfort, but shortness of breath also can happen before chest discomfort.
What blood test should you have done when testing for a heart attack?
They commonly are EKGs done at the hospital or blood tests testing for the Troponin T which the protein is normally found within the heart muscles and normally reliable when testing for heart attacks risks in which depending on the protein and what is brought up may say it has a higher rate of a possible heart attack.