Monday, August 10, 2009

Heart Attack - Treatments and drugs

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During a heart attack, take immediate action. The following steps:

* Call for emergency medical assistance. If you have a heart attack, I think, do not hesitate. Call 911 or your local emergency number. If health care, you will have access to the nearest emergency hospital. Driving only a last resort, if there is no choice. Driving: Do you own and other people in danger if the situation deteriorates.
Nitroglycerin all *. If your doctor has prescribed nitroglycerin, the direction of the bend is awaiting emergency medical personnel.

If someone, heart attack, training for first aid and emergency medical cases in the search, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is started can be found unconscious. This makes the body and the spirit of oxygen. If training is not an emergency procedure, doctors recommend skipping the mouth rescue breathing and go directly to chest compression. If the 100 chest compressions per minute.

The first day, this heart attack, ventricular fibrillation, which can lead to heart conditions vibrates unnecessarily. Emergency will result in sudden death by ventricular fibrillation. For emergency care in the normal rhythm of the heart attack that has a heart for the first shocks (AED) automated external defibrillator use, reaching the hospital.

When a hospital emergency, and we, of course, heart attack, can be treated with medications and invasive procedures, or both to spend - determine the amount of violence and damage to the heart is for you.

Drugs
Every minute, after a heart attack, network, lack of oxygen and die, or worse. Rapid recovery of blood to prevent progressive damage to the main road.

Medicine in the treatment of heart attack include:

* Aspirin. Aspirin on arrival emergency medical personnel or hospital can be reached. Aspirin to prevent blood and the blood that help blood vessels to narrow. Time to take aspirin in touch with your doctor if you have symptoms of heart attack.
* Thrombolytics. This drug, known as clot-Busters to help the blood clot blocks blood flow to the heart. But after a heart attack you have received trombolytische drugs, there is still opportunity to minimize injury and to heart.
* Superaspirins. Doctors in many places such as other drugs aspirin to prevent new clots and can do so. Type this (Plavix) Clopidogrel and including other drugs have platelet IIb / IIIA receptor blockers.
Dilution * Other blood products. Heparin as a blood "sticky" and less dangerous and less likely to cause, other medication. Heparin intravenously, and usually the first administration or injection under the skin for days after a heart attack is used.
* Analjezik are. If chest pain or pain in May and most of the pain, like morphine, they will help the problem.
* Nitroglycerin. Drugs, arterial blood vessels to the chest pain (angina pectoris) and heart blood flow by increasing the treatment used.
* Beta-blockers. This product is to reduce blood pressure and heart function and to slow the heart rate to help the heart muscles relax. Beta blockers for myocardial injury is limited and in the future to prevent heart attack.
* Low cholesterol drugs. Example of statins, niacin, fibrates and bile acid sequestrants include. If the heart attack immediately after the data to improve the life of the product and helps reduce blood cholesterol levels can be a useful and unwanted.

Operations and procedures
Drugs in the month of May, as in the treatment of heart attack is one of the following:

* Angioplasty and coronary services tax. Emergency coronary angioplasty, the more blood Charter to open the main road is blocked. If your doctor has a long, thin tube through the arteries and feet (Catheter), usually as a blocked heart artery. Balloon catheters have a tip. Then during a balloon tip to begin to grow blocked coronary arteries. At the same time each metal stent can be placed and remain open long artery, blood flow to the heart. Depending on the situation, the doctor for medication stent to keep arteries open space covered with a slow release of the decision.

Angioplasty and coronary coronary catheterization (angiography), a procedure that doctors and the first to find the heart and the vascular contraction. To get a heart angioplasty for treatment, the sooner the better. If the days or weeks after the angioplasty performed in May, blocked blood vessels, strong, but there is no advantage.
* Surgical revascularisation. In rare cases, doctors surgery for heart attack in May that emergency operations are applied. Arteries and coronary arteries or veins outside the CABG parking congestion or decreased (one part) was due to heart and blood. Or doctor suggested this procedure to recover from heart attack when the heart is time.

Blood and circulatory system and heart after a heart attack after returning to a stable condition, the hospital can be a perception. Because physical and emotional stress on the heart, you must rest. Visitors are usually limited to family and friends.

Recovery
The goal of emergency treatment as a result of a heart attack, heart blood and tissue shows that saved. Next target treatment to promote healing for the heart and the second is to prevent heart attack.

In early May, a number of hospitals offer heart rehabilitation program at the hospital, and severity of attacks for a period of several weeks, several months after you return. Heart rehabilitation programs generally have three main areas - drugs, lifestyle changes and a focus on emotional problems.



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