RSSCritical Care – What is a heart attack?
In short, a heart attack happens when blood vessels that supply blood to the heart are blocked. This causes the heart muscle is permanently damaged or die. The medical term for this event is myocardial infarction and may have several causes or triggers:
Blood clots can form a clot in the blood vessels throughout the body, if he is released and can come to rest in a coronary artery, blocking the flow of oxygenated Blood to the heart.
Arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis are often different names for the same thing. Plaque or fatty deposits accumulate in the walls of coronary arteries. Cholesterol is one of them. As the plaque builds up, you can block one of your coronary arteries deprive the heart of the life giving oxygen-rich blood. The same plate can also develop cracks or cracks that cause blood platelets stick your forms a clot that can block a coronary artery.> Heart attacks occur most frequently during this type of strenuous exercises.
Stress or anxiety can also trigger a heart attack. In these cases it is usually sudden and overwhelming, and causes blood pressure increases the heart rate increased. Shortness of breath, often precludes this type of heart attack. Stress is angry with a situation or that makes you anxious, frustrated. Fear is above all a sense of fear, nervousness orConcern.
A number of factors, including age, diabetes, genetic or hereditary factors, high blood pressure, smoking, drinking, eating too much fat, chronic kidney disease and high cholesterol "bad" LDL cholesterol with a low "good" HDL's disease could help contribute to the risk of heart. Historically, men have a heart attack than women, although as a result, women are more likely to die as one. The main reason is that the symptoms in men and womencan be very different, women tend to minimize the warning signs.
Popular belief severe chest pain or crushing of the injury are not necessarily the only symptom or the primary symptom associated with heart attacks, particularly for women before. The pain may be severe or mild. It may seem like a narrow band around the chest or just feel a bad digestion. Some people, mostly men, have the feeling that something heavy is on top of your chest sits described. The symptoms may come and go away back, but usually longer than 20 minutes. Here are some of the most common symptoms other than chest pain:
Fear
Impotence
Cough
Nausea or vomiting
Dizziness
Shortness of breath
Sweating
Palpitation
Pain or numbness in one or both arms
Women often complain of shortness of breath, overwhelming fatigue and weakness, as inexplicable pain, which extended her neck and lower jaw along the line. And it really is a silent heartAttack> that has no symptoms.
Advances in medicine have been greatly reduced death from heart attacks, but that does not relieve you of the responsibility of maintaining your health and be aware of the symptoms for. Quick treatment during a cardiac emergency can literally be the difference between life and death. Do not hesitate visiting the ER or call 911, if in doubt. Result can, in fact, will cost you your life and say that your loved one is left to bevisitation.
And "to prevent much better than cure.