What to do if you have a myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction is a serious disease. When it is severe, it can take the patient's life in a very short time. Therefore, it is very necessary for everyone to understand the symptoms of myocardial infarction. Once these symptoms occur, seek help from others if there are others around you. If there is no one around, save yourself as soon as possible. When a myocardial infarction occurs, you will feel severe pain in the chest area, which is very different from the pain caused by other diseases.

The pain of myocardial infarction is a squeezing pain, that is, a pain that makes you breathless, accompanied by profuse sweating, palpitations, and shortness of breath. Patients often feel like they are on the verge of death. Once a myocardial infarction occurs, if timely measures are not taken, the consequences will be disastrous. Here’s what to do if you have a myocardial infarction.

1. Quiet: The risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden death is greatest within 4 hours of onset. You should lie flat on the ground. Any movement will increase the burden on the heart and endanger your life.

2. Analgesia: Place a nitroglycerin tablet under the tongue, or crush a tube of amyl nitrite with a handkerchief and inhale it through your nose. If conditions permit, 2-5 mg of morphine sulfate can be slowly injected intravenously, repeated every 15 minutes until the pain is relieved; or 50-100 mg of pethidine can be injected intramuscularly. Repeat the dose after 4 hours if necessary.

3. Oxygen inhalation: Oxygen inhalation should be given immediately if conditions permit. 4. Resuscitation: If the above first aid is not effective, mouth-to-mouth breathing and chest compressions should be performed immediately.

5. Call for help: Contact the hospital or emergency center as soon as possible and ask the doctor to come for rescue or send to the hospital for treatment.

Myocardial infarction is a common clinical manifestation of coronary heart disease and also the most dangerous type. It is partial myocardial necrosis caused by severe and persistent acute myocardial ischemia. Therefore, the symptoms are more serious than angina pectoris. Not only does it affect a large area and last a long time, but it is also life-threatening. So before the ambulance arrives, you should:

Immediately lie down and rest where you are. Do not move the patient casually, and do not help the patient walk.

Immediately give 5-10 mg of isothiocarbamide sublingually;

Patients with myocardial infarction generally have other underlying diseases, such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, etc. Patients with underlying diseases of myocardial infarction must pay attention to not overwork, overexcitement, or excessive fatigue. They should always have quick-acting heart-saving pills and compound danshen pills at home. Once they feel there is a heart problem, save themselves immediately.