4 ways to help victims of heart attack

A heart attack can strike anyone and anywhere. If you suspect or see someone having a heart attack, quick action can help save his life. Browse first aid measures.

Cited from the BBC, a heart attack is a condition in which one of the arteries that bring blood congestion, usually this is caused by blood clots. The main risk of this condition will make the heart beat is abnormal and even stopped.

American Heart Association (AHA) recorded more than 1 million people have heart attacks each year and half of them died of a heart attack. Therefore, it is important for everyone to know how to save those who had a heart attack, as quoted from Detikhealth.

1. Dudukkan or baringkan. If men, open the belt he was wearing, if the woman open her bra so that she could breathe more relief.

2. give aspirin if she did not have allergies. Aspirin will help dilute the blood to clot and help keep blood flowing to the arteries. Chewing aspirin during a heart attack can reduce the risk of death by up to 25 percent.

3. direct telephone numbers of emergency or hospital and explain symptoms experienced in brief and clear, like "patients experienced severe chest pains and breathing difficulties".

4. Try not to waste my time. Time 1 hour to 90 minutes since had a heart attack until a trip to the hospital is expected to still be able to provide succor to the people affected by heart attacks.

Time 1 hour is considered critical because it is based on the experience of doctors who treat patients with heart attacks, most people are not helped in the first one hour of a heart attack. The average heart attack patient died because of delay's help, the gravity of the attacks happened and issue the ability of the patient to surgery.

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