Heart Attack

Every minute, 4 people are dying of Heart attack in India. That sends the annual heart attack. Over the last three decades, cases of heart disease in India have risen threefold. An estimated 12 out of 100 people living in cities; and 7 out of 100 in rural India suffering. By 2010, 60 percent of the world's heart patients will be in India. By 2015, India will have 62 million patients with heart disease. The disease strikes Indians at a much younger age than in other countries. It is often thirties and forties.

What Is Heart Attack?
A heart attack also known as a myocardial infarction (MI), generally occur when there is a blockage not receiving the oxygen and nutrients it needs.

What Causes Heart Attack?
Coronary Thrombosis A heart attack most often results when a blood clot forms in a narrowed arte heart muscle supplied by that artery. Coronary Stenos is: Sudden narrowing of the coronary arteries results in lowered blood supply to the Risk Factors That Lead To Heart Attack?

Risk Factors That Cannot Be Changed

Increasing age: About 85 percent of people who die of coronary heart disease are age 65 or older.

Male gender: Men have a greater risk of heart attack than women, and they have attacks earlier in lit.

Heredity (including race): Children of parents with heart disease are more likely to develop it them.

Tobacco smoke: Smokers risk of heart attack is more than twice that of nonsmokers. Cigarette smoking is the have two to four times the risk of nonsmokers. Smokers who have a heart attack are more likely to die suddenly.

High blood cholesterol levels: The risk of heart attack and stroke rises as blood cholesterol levels increase gender, heredity and diet.

High blood pressure: High blood pressure increases the hearts workload, causing the heart to enlarge and with obesity, smoking, high blood cholesterol levels or diabetes, the risk of heart attack or stroke increases sev.

Physical inactivity: Lack of physical activity is a risk factor for heart attack.

Obesity and overweight: People who have excess body fat are more likely to suffer heart attack or stroke unhealthy because excess weight increases the strain on the heart. It's directly linked with heart attacks because triglyceride levels and makes diabetes more likely to develop.

Diabetes mellitus: Diabetes seriously increases the risk of suffering heart attack. Even when glucose levels attack or stroke. Two-thirds of people with diabetes die of some form of heart or blood vessel disease.

Mental Stress: Individual response to stress may be a contributing factor. Some scientists have noted an n person's life, their health behaviors and socioeconomic status. These factors may affect established risk fact start smoking or smoke more than they otherwise would.

Now imagine a scenario. You are alone and all of sudden you get heart attack then how to survive?

Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're driving home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, and frustrated……

YOU ARE REALLY STRESSED AND UPSET ….

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far What to do?????

YOU HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN CPR, BUT THE GUY THAT CONDUCTED THE COURSE DID NOT TELL YOU HOW TO PERFORM IT ON YOURSELF!!! HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE?

SINCE MANY PEOPLE ARE ALONE WHEN THEY SUFFER A HEART ATTACK, WITHOUT HELP, THE PERSON WHOSE HEART IS BEATING IMPROPERLY AND WHO BEGINS TO FEEL FAINT, HAS ONLY ABOUT 10 SECONDS LEFT BEFORE LOSING CONSCIOUS What to do???

ANSWER:

DO NOT PANIC, BUT START COUGHING REPEATEDLY AND VERY VIGOROUSLY.

A DEEP BREATH SHOULD BE TAKEN BEFORE EACH COUGH; THE COUGH MUST BE DEEP AND PROLONGED, AS WHEN PRODUCING SPUTUM FROM DEEP INSIDE THE CHEST.

A BREATH AND A COUGH MUST BE REPEATED ABOUT EVERY TWO SECONDS WITHOUT LET-UP UNTIL HELP ARRIVES, OR UNTIL THE HEART IS FELT TO BE BEATING NORMALLY AGAIN. DEEP BREATHS GET OXYGEN INTO THE LUNGS AND COUGHING MOVEMENTS SQUEEZE THE HEART AND KEEP THE BLOOD CIRCULATING. THE SQUEEZING PRESSURE ON THE HEART ALSO HELPS IT REGAIN NORMAL RHYTHM. IN THIS WAY, HEART ATTACK VICTIMS CAN GET TO A HOSPITAL ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON N. º 240 OF JOURNAL OF GENERAL HOSPITAL ROCHESTER