Having a Heart Attack
When having a heart attack, immediate treatment options often involve the use of aspirin, oxygen, pain relief, and glycerol trinitrate.
The patient is then subjected to numerous diagnostic tests, including chest x-rays, blood tests, and electrocardiograms in which elevated troponin or creatine kinase levels are detected.
The patient is then prescribed medications that will break down blood clots that may be blocking the flow of blood to the heart.
Or, in more extreme cases, the patient will have to undergo bypass surgery, restoring the blood flow to the blocked coronary artery.
Abnormal heart rhythms and other associated complications can be quickly and safely treated in coronary care units.
Heart attacks are a common form of ischemic heart disease.
The World Health Organization estimated in the year 2002 that over twelve percent of all worldwide deaths arose as a result of ischemic heart disease.
In developed countries, it is the leading cause of death.
In developing countries, however it comes third behind AIDS and lower respiratory infections.
Heart disease forms the leading cause of death in the United States - it is even more common than cancer.
An estimated one fifth of all deaths in America come as a result of coronary heart disease.
Over thirteen million individuals across the nation suffer from coronary heart disease.
Every year, over a million people suffer from coronary heart attacks; four out of every ten individuals die from their attacks.
Broken down in to temporal statistics, this means that every sixty five seconds, someone in America dies as the result of a coronary heart attack.
The patient is then subjected to numerous diagnostic tests, including chest x-rays, blood tests, and electrocardiograms in which elevated troponin or creatine kinase levels are detected.
The patient is then prescribed medications that will break down blood clots that may be blocking the flow of blood to the heart.
Or, in more extreme cases, the patient will have to undergo bypass surgery, restoring the blood flow to the blocked coronary artery.
Abnormal heart rhythms and other associated complications can be quickly and safely treated in coronary care units.
Heart attacks are a common form of ischemic heart disease.
The World Health Organization estimated in the year 2002 that over twelve percent of all worldwide deaths arose as a result of ischemic heart disease.
In developed countries, it is the leading cause of death.
In developing countries, however it comes third behind AIDS and lower respiratory infections.
Heart disease forms the leading cause of death in the United States - it is even more common than cancer.
An estimated one fifth of all deaths in America come as a result of coronary heart disease.
Over thirteen million individuals across the nation suffer from coronary heart disease.
Every year, over a million people suffer from coronary heart attacks; four out of every ten individuals die from their attacks.
Broken down in to temporal statistics, this means that every sixty five seconds, someone in America dies as the result of a coronary heart attack.
