First aid for myocardial infarction

Changes in the heart muscle are made due to disturbances in blood flow through the coronary vessels.

Correctly provided first aid for myocardial infarction gives hope for a successful outcome of the disease. Probably, it will not be superfluous to say that competent actions in case of a heart attack can lead to saving lives.

Providing first aid for a heart attack requires great care, attention and responsibility:

• try to quickly call an ambulance (special resuscitation or cardiology team);
• It is advisable to meet the car with someone from close relatives, so as not to waste the time necessary for the prompt provision of professional assistance;
•  to relieve the load on the heart, it is required to give the patient sedatives and put him to bed;
•  to stop pain attacks, you need to put a nitroglycerin tablet under the tongue;
•  then chew a tablet of aspirin, analgin, or other pain relievers;
•  in case of cardiac arrest, take resuscitation actions: first, you must deliver a strong and short blow to the chest area (precordial blow);
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•  if this does not help, then it is required to begin ventilation of the lungs and chest compressions;
•  you should continue the initiated actions until the arrival of an ambulance.

Myocardial infarction symptoms.

The main symptom of myocardial infarction is an attack of intense chest pain.

In patients with angina pectoris, the pain does not go away even after taking the usual doses of nitroglycerin.

Fear of imminent death is considered a characteristic symptom of a heart attack.

Chest pain is intermittent and spreads:

• under the left shoulder blade;
• in the left hand;
• teeth;
• neck.

Perhaps a sharp deterioration in the patient's condition (cold sweat, weakness, nausea) with a decrease or increase in blood pressure.

First aid for acute myocardial infarction is carried out at home (on the street, at work) and is no different from the general method:

• calling an ambulance;
• taking nitroglycerin;
• blood pressure regulation;
• resuscitation manipulations.

First aid for a heart attack is the following generally accepted tactics:

• immediate hospitalization;
• monitoring the general condition of the patient;
• laboratory diagnostics (myoglobin, troponin);
• ECG diagnostics (with a dynamic component);
• elimination of pain attacks;
• oxygen inhalation (required);
• treatment of complications.