Coronary Heart
Disease
Introduction.
The heart attack or myocardial infarction many
a times has atypical presentation. People feel that they have acidity
or ulcer pain or so called gas trouble or especially in diabetics
they may not have any symptoms at all. The classical description of
pain in this condition is: pain on the left side of the chest that
radiates to the left shoulder and inner aspect of the arm, forearm
and the little finger of the left side. It may manifest just as gas
trouble, or as Pain at: lower jaw, neck, stomach, back, right shoulder
or rarely as pain at genitals.
The message is, if in doubt rule out heart trouble. It will make a
life and death difference. And therefore one should not waste time
in taking soda or lime or anti acid medication or waiting for family
doctor to come. Calling for cardiac ambulance is not the right option
because many a times the ambulance is busy with another call. If not,
the staff takes some time to organize themselves before they start
and worst thing is many a times the doctor who accompanies the ambulance
is not even, MBBS! [Ideally there should be a well-qualified doctor
experienced in handling this kind of emergency.] Therefore it is the
most wise decision to rush yourself to the nearest big hospital. Why
big hospital? Because these hospitals are equipped to take care of
all eventualities. What do I mean by big hospital? It is a hospital
where you have all the facilities including bypass surgery.
Why should we rush? Because if it is heart attack, with proper and
timely treatment the heart can be saved.
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