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Heart Attacks
Heart attacks are the most common cause of death in the United States. A heart attack is when a blood clot or a plaque of cholesterol, causing severe chest pain and decreasing the amount of oxygen and blood that reaches the heart, occludes the veins that perfuse the muscle of the heart. ... Favorable prognosis requires early medical treatment with clot dissolving medications or surgical insertion of a plastic catheter, to relieve the obstruction within the first twenty-four hours of a heart attack.
In the Articles “Heart attacks the first 24 hours”(American Family Physician)
Sep 1, 1996. ...
“Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Heart Attacks” (Postgraduate Medicine) Mar 1994. ...
“ Aggressive Treatment of Acute Heart Attacks”(Postgraduate Medicine) Dec 1993, Vol. ... These authors provide current medical information to colleagues on the management of patients suffering from heart attacks. ... Their focus is to provide the best approach to treatment for a patient that has just suffered a heart attack. ... The average heart attack victims waits an average of three hour before recognizing that the pain and the symptoms are serious, in return only
increasing the mortality rate. ... gavagan is known as “ the golden hour” this means early recognition and management within one hour, patients must be screened for possible inclusion into a trial of blood dissolving medications, known as thrombolytics, these medications locate where the blood vessel is occluded and dissolve the clot, to where the body can absorb it and restore blood and oxygen perfusion to the heart.
Approximate Word count = 956
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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