Tips to Handle First Aid on Heart Attack

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5 First Aid on Heart Attack

Heart attack is a condition that requires immediate management and includes one medical emergency. The faster action or treatment is given, the greater the likelihood the patient can be saved. 

Before taking relief measures, the most important is recognize the symptoms and make sure whether the complaints of the symptoms of a heart attack. Heart attack symptoms can vary, from the lightest to the degree of weight. In general.

Symptoms of heart attack are as follows: 

• Chest pain that lasts for a few minutes (over 5 minutes), or intermittent, pain such as pressed or crushed or punctured. The location of pain is usually on the left or in the middle of the chest. Chest pain is specific in nature, meaning that the characteristics of the pain is almost always occurs in a heart attack. If there is only one symptom that you can find, make sure the pain is there. 
• The pain may spread or be a discomfort or tingling in the shoulder, upper arm, back, neck or even the lower jaw. 
• Difficult breathing or become short of breath. 
• Arise in a cold sweat. 
• Nausea, weakness suddenly. 
• Dizziness or head feels lighter. 
• The heartbeat becomes irregular.

If these symptoms found in patients, then immediately do the following things: 

• Sit the patient or placed in a position that is comfortable for the patient. Make sure the patient can lean so no need to carry weight of his body. However, do not take the lying position because if the patient loses consciousness, airway may be compromised. 
• Call for help. Call the emergency number. 
• Reassure the patient, give soothing words while loosening clothes so that people can help him breathe more easily. 
• Ask the person's medical history. Is there a doctor prescribed heart medication and he usually drank. If the emergency department patients to take medication, help him to take the medicine. In general, the most commonly prescribed medications in the form of chewable aspirin or nitroglycerin under the tongue. Do not even give the drug in patients with a history of heart disease without knowing or without a prescription from a doctor as this can actually worsen the condition of his heart. 
• Always check the patient awareness. While waiting for help to arrive, make sure the patient was still conscious by asking to speak. If the patient suddenly fell unconscious then you should be prepared to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation.. However, before doing resuscitation should you have completed training in emergency first aid. Given this, you may also call the emergency number again and then get briefed on the steps that can be performed resuscitation.

Likewise tips to know the symptoms of heart attack and how to handle it properly. Hopefully this article can help provide knowledge to you if there is something like the above conditions.

Posted by Restu Darma 27 October 2014