Saturday, November 19, 2011

Heart Attack First Aid

We will nervous if facing with heart attack to people. Heart attack is different with other diseases because heart attack is critical condition. If you decide or treat with wrong way it can be fatal and often can cause died. First aid to help people who have heart attack race against time, because heart attack is stopped supply of blood circulation to all the body organ.

When a heart attack strikes, the longer delay of seeking medical treatment, more heart muscle will be damaged. To make normal blood supply to all organ by heart is unblocked an artery with quickly to limit damage. This treatment must be done in a hospital and include injecting clotbusting drugs to dissolve of clot and angioplasty, where the blood vessel is opened by balloon often with placement of a stent.

We just can call to emergency number and give first aid if the patient can't breath, by make artificial respiratory. If the patient still breath we must as quickly as possible to bring the patient to the heat attack hospital. Hospital have estimated treatment plans to minimize the time to diagnose and treat people with heart attack. The National guidelines suggest that an electrocardiogram (EKG) be done within 10 minutes of the patient's arrival in the ER. Manything will be done at the same time while the EKG being completed, doctor will take the patient history and complete a physical exam while the nurses start an intravenous line, place heart monitor lines on the chest and administer oxygen.

Until now still very rare hospital can handle patient with heart attack with satisfactory. Only big hospital with enough experience and with complete equipment to treat every heart attack problem. A late help to heart attack patient will make fatal condition even dead.