Heart Attack

Heart attack causes sudden death and there was no exactly any age or lifestyle which you can assign as a particular risk zone of this fatal health disorder. According one US statistics, out of 1.1 million cases, 40,000 heart attacks were fatal. In most of the cases the heart attack was set due to ventricular fibrillation problem which hardly spare time to start medical intervention. However, those who could have taken in emergency room to provide medical back up, 90% of them are successfully revived by the back up of medicines.

The credit for this success of revival rate of heart attack patients goes to modern method of angioplasty, blood clot dissolving drugs, and coronary angiogram facilities which can remove blockage from arteries, restore blood circulation and thus minimize the damage to heart muscles.

But to apply all these methods the patient need to be taken to a medical center at the early stage of problem when these procedures can provide adequate back up for heart to prevent fatal damage.

The symptoms of heart attack need to be recognized in its varied form to provide the earliest back up for the patient; the earliest back up ensures the revival chance of the affected patients.

The sign and symptoms of heart attack vary from one person to other in some cases there are no visible symptoms at all possible to recognize for initial alertness. Especially in case of the diabetic patients, most heart attacks occur absolutely without any symptom.

General symptoms of heart attacks are Headache, jaw pain, and in some cases undefined toothache
Feeling shortness of breath Suffocating discomfort at chest with dull or sharp pain Feeling of nausea and tendency to vomit on and on Epigastric discomfort Excessive or abnormal sweating Abnormal problem of indigestion or heartburn Left arm pain [right arm pain symptom is common in some cases].

Apart from these precise problems, general discomfort of health, feeling of sharp pain on upper back side are need to be counted as the possible sign of forth coming hear attack. If there is any feeling choking discomfort, you need to seek doctor’s attention immediately to be on the safer side of health.