Friday, August 7, 2009

Treatment of Heart Attack?

diagram 0f the human heart
The question whether early treatment can prevent and limit damage to heart muscle. You can save the results of the first symptoms of heart attack. Before you can start the diagnosis and medical treatment in the hospital.

If, before the diagnosis is confirmed, treatment of suspected heart attack will begin immediately. These include:

* Oxygen
* To avoid large-scale and aspirin
* Nitroglycerin, the heart and increasing coronary blood flow, reduction of labor
* Chest pain

After the diagnosis of heart attack, or begin treatment as soon as possible to be wary of efforts to restore blood flow to the heart. Treatment, including medicines and medical procedures.
Drugs

Can be used to treat various types of heart attack drugs. Is as follows.
Trombolytische drugs

This drug (also) be used to combat a blood clot to dissolve clot blocks a coronary artery. To be effective, drugs must be determined after the start of the symptoms of heart attack within hours.
β - blockers

Working to reduce the medical center. β - blockers, chest pain and agitation are used to alleviate or prevent heart attack. β - blockers, arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) is used to improve.
Angiotensin enzyme (ACE conversion) inhibitor

Reduce the pressure on the heart and blood pressure medicine. Allows you to delay the further weakening of the heart muscle.
Anticoagulant

This medicine is too thin to prevent the formation of blood clots in the arteries.
Antiplatelet drugs

Medicine () such as aspirin and clopidogrel suspension of platelets (the type of blood cells) and form a mass of unnecessary war.
Other drugs

Agitation reduces the pain and medication for a heart attack when they can receive treatment arrhythmia that often occur.
Medical Procedures

To stop a heart attack if the drug is not possible, can be used, not how or doctors surgery. Application of this procedure.
Angioplasty

Can be used to open a thrombosis of the coronary arteries blocked by non-surgical. In angioplasty, a balloon on the tip of the Catheter (slightly flexible tube) is the thread that blocked coronary artery in the blood. When the ball is further support for the plaque in the arterial wall. In this part of the artery, restoring blood flow, and then developed.

In angioplasty, a small mesh tube stent in the artery open on Monday 5th Akan blocked stents coated with drugs can help prevent some arteries.
Operation for coronary artery bypass

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery, vein and artery, blockage of the coronary arteries in other parts of the body and accumulate (or bypass) has been reduced. This is a new way of providing blood to the heart muscle.
After the treatment, with discharge

Most people spend several days in the hospital after a heart attack. When released, this treatment does not stop. Welcome, you can use the heart of chemotherapy and rehabilitation (rehabilitation) per day. Doctor, lose weight, stop smoking and other lifestyle changes, and perhaps you should change the diet, increasing physical activity to a possible heart attack.
Recovery heart

May prescribe and rehabilitation to restore the middle of the heart, prevent heart attack. In a heart attack can benefit from rehabilitation. Rights and strengthen the heart muscle.

But the heart of the rehabilitation movement. This training, counseling and other risk factors studied. After a heart attack and how to rehabilitation to learn how to avoid another car.

Rehabilitation team is the heart, the doctor (general physician, cardiologist or surgeon), nurses, exercise specialists, physical doctor, psychologist or a doctor working with the action and diet.



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