'Time of gold' emergency of a heart attack

Less than 2 hours after symptoms of angina or collapse until intervention is the best time to save a person with acute heart attack.

"Golden time" to save people with heart attack

Acute myocardial infarction is a dangerous disease, high mortality threat. According to Associate Professor Pham Manh Hung, General Secretary of Vietnam Heart Association, with acute myocardial infarction, time is life itself . According to the latest research in the world, from the time the patient showed angina or collapse until the coronary artery intervention less than 2 hours is the best time, the highest survival rate.

Only nearly 2% of heart attack patients arrive early within 2 hours.

Statistics at the National Heart Institute (Hanoi) show that the sad reality is that only nearly 2% of heart attack patients arrive early in the 'golden time' period . The number of people coming to the hospital before 12 o'clock is about 40%; The rest are patients who come too late and many cases do not save or leave serious sequelae.

' Early cardiovascular intervention, coronary angioplasty is the top recommendation, because it saves patients' lives. The time from when a heart attack patient to chest pain to hospitalization after 12 hours is considered too late. Late intervention, myocardium dies, patients with life are also prone to complications of heart failure, arrhythmia and poor quality of life , 'said Professor Hung.

The main manifestation of the disease is typical angina : Pain that suffers from behind the sternum or the area before the heart, spreads to the left shoulder and face in the left hand until the finger rings and pinky fingers. The pain often appears suddenly, lasting more than 30 minutes, may be accompanied by sweating, difficulty breathing, and heavy breathing. In addition, some cases have no or little pain (silent heart attack) .

When chest pain is described, the patient needs to stop working immediately and the work being done, lie down, use nitroglycerine under the tongue if you have been diagnosed with coronary artery disease before . If after 10-30 minutes the chest pain is not good, especially when the nitroglycerine is absorbed under the tongue, it should be taken immediately.