“Is there any treatment for heart attacks?”
I am a 55 year old male. I want to know if there is any treatment for heart attacks?
3 Answers
This is a very general question, so the answer in general is yes. Not all heart attacks are the same, so different situations require different interventions either with procedures or medications. To be more specific, most heart attacks occur because of a sudden closure of a vessel that gives the heart its own blood supply (coronary arteries). If a person gets to an emergency room within a certain period of time from the moment the symptoms begin, we have the ability to reopen the related artery and usually deploy a Stent, that works like scaffolding to keep the artery open. There also are some specific medications that are required after this type of procedure.
Hope this was helpful.
Hope this was helpful.
If a patient arrives soon after the heart attack has started, the most effective treatment is to take the patient quickly to the cardiac cath lab where coronary arteriography is performed. A heart attack usually involves the production of an occlusion in an artery to the heart muscle when a cholesterol plaque ruptures or erodes through, causing a blood clot to form.
Absolutely there is treatment for heart attacks! The most important part of the treatment is prevention, but that is not an answer to your question. You should be sure to go to your doctor and make sure you are doing everything possible to avoid a heart attack. Textbooks have been written about treating heart attacks, and I can hardly write a textbook in answer to your question. Let's talk about what CAN and should do if you think you might be having a heart attack. The doctors should know what to do once you get to see them.
1. Let someone know and they should call 911.
2. Chew and swallow an aspirin. Lie down and try to relax. Don't eat or drink.
If you are experiencing a cardiac arrest, hopefully someone will be around who knows what to do and, if you are lucky, you are near a defibrillator. Once you get to an appropriate medical facility, they will take care of the rest. There is a great deal they can do. The death rate from heart attack patients who reach a facility is quite low. It is the out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that stubbornly resist an improvement in the outcomes, to some extent because our streets are so congested that ambulances can't reach a victim and cannot get a victim to an emergency room quickly enough.
1. Let someone know and they should call 911.
2. Chew and swallow an aspirin. Lie down and try to relax. Don't eat or drink.
If you are experiencing a cardiac arrest, hopefully someone will be around who knows what to do and, if you are lucky, you are near a defibrillator. Once you get to an appropriate medical facility, they will take care of the rest. There is a great deal they can do. The death rate from heart attack patients who reach a facility is quite low. It is the out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that stubbornly resist an improvement in the outcomes, to some extent because our streets are so congested that ambulances can't reach a victim and cannot get a victim to an emergency room quickly enough.
