Heart Attack signs
According to an article I just read, people with heart disease do not know the signs/symptoms of a heart attack. But they are about 5-7 times more likely to suffer a heart attack then someone without any heart issues or history. This seems odd to me. I mean if someone had heart issues, wouldn’t you want to know the symptoms of a heart attack, so you can be better prepared. But the symptoms can be anything from nausea to pain in the chest, jaw & left arm. I knew about the pain in chest and left arm, but jaw or even nausea? I had no idea. According to the research team in this article, they claim that the shorter hospital stays and move to outpatient treatment may have reduced the education on the subject to the patients. I guess because it is easier to tend to these heart attacks now, little education is provided. But the education will help these patients get to the hospital sooner. Apparently, patients are taking between 2 1/2-3 hours to get to the hospital, because they do not recognize the symptoms soon enough. But only education will help patients get to the hospital sooner, which will increase the patient’s chances of surviving the heart attack.
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