Before You Have a Heart Attack

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Before You Have a Heart Attack

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Heart attack can strike at any time, whether or not you exercise every day, follow dietary guidelines and have a cholesterol count lower than 200. But it can be prevented by taking powerful clot-busting drugs. These drugs can save thousands of lives by dissolving the artery-blocking clots that cause the majority of heart attacks. These drugs are called thrombolytic agents. So to make sure that you get the treatment as needed, you should plan now. Here are some things to do:

Call your doctor. Make sure that your physician supports the aggressive use of these drugs. Your doctor must be fully aware of their value and also the importance of timing. To be effective, it must be administered in the first hours following the initial signs of a heart attack.

Choose the best hospital. Hospitals with the quickest responses administered thrombolytic agents in the emergency room should be carefully chosen. Ask your doctor which hospital is best for treating heart attack. Do not wait until the day your heart attack will come. Find out ahead of time which hospitals in your community routinely administer such therapy in the emergency department.

Involve your family. If you have a heart attack, you may be incapacitated, and your other family members will have to carry through on plans you have made with your doctor. Be sure they know the symptoms of a heart attack. Now if you think that you are exhibiting such signs, do the following:

Do not delay, do not deny. Seek help immediately. Do not let the embarrassment of a possible false alarm be the cause of your death.

Call for emergency. Heart attack victims wait more than an hour from the time they first notice symptoms to the time they get to an emergency room. And that delay can be deadly. When a small area of heart tissue dies from lack of blood, this injured area may grow larger for hours or even days. But when clot busters are used in time, the chances of this happening are decreased.

Take an aspirin. If you take one regular aspirin tablet before going to the hospital, your chances of heart damage can be greatly reduced. For best results, chew the tablet so to enter bloodstream more quickly.

Fortunately, with the right preparation, you can do a lot to ensure that you get the life-saving drugs you need.

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