A heart attack is a condition that requires immediate management and including one medical kegawatdarurat. The sooner 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 a heart attack symptoms. Heart attack symptoms can vary, the most of the degrees of mild to severe. In general, the symptoms of heart attack are as follows:
- Chest pain that lasts for a few minutes (over 5 minutes) or intermittent, complaints of pain such as pressed or crushed or punctured. The location of pain is usually on the left or in the middle of the chest. The specific nature of chest pain, meaning pain with these characteristics are almost always arise 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 discomfort or tingling in the shoulder, upper arm, back, neck or even lower jaw.
- Difficulty breathing or breathing becomes short
- Arise cold sweat
- Nausea, weakness suddenly
- Dizziness or lightheadedness
- The heartbeat becomes irregular
If these symptoms found in patients, then immediately do the following things:
- Sit the patient or place it in a position that is comfortable for the patient. Make sure the patient can lean so no need to support the weight of his body. However, do not take lying down position because if the patient loses consciousness, the breathing may be interrupted.
- Call for help. Contact emergency phone number is 118 or 119 for an ambulance rapid response
- Reassure the patient, give soothing words while loosening clothes so that patients can help him breathe more easily.
- Ask the person's medical history. Is there a heart medication prescribed by a doctor and he usually drank. If the emergency department patients to take medication, help him to take the medicine. In general, prescription drugs can be a 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 because it can actually worsen the condition of his heart.
- Always check the awareness of patients. While waiting for help to arrive, make sure the patient is still conscious by asking to speak. If a patient suddenly falls unconscious then you should be ready to perform CPR. However, before doing resuscitation should you have been trained in emergency first aid. Given this, you can also call the emergency number 118 once again to then get briefed on steps that can be performed resuscitation.
In addition to the steps mentioned above, it is also important for you to pay attention to what not to do when giving first aid to heart attacks.
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