can first heart attack kill someone?
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Yes,The first heart attack killed several people.Smokers,seniors,and males are more prone to die after a first heart attack.
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There are only several interventions that have proven to reduce mortality during the heart attack.  Most of them are hospital based, so calling 911 is defenitely a good idea.  As you are waiting for the paramedics, you don't need to cough or sit in a particular way.  You should try to relax, as anxiety may worsen the pain.  Two things in your cabinet may be helpful.  First and most important is aspirin.  It is essential and a first thing paramedics would give you anyway.  It is important to chew the aspirin, so it enters the bloodstream faster.  The usual dose is four baby (81 mg) or one 325 mg tablet all at once.  The second thing is nitroglycerin (that is what you put under your tounge).  Nitroglycerin helps with pain.  All of these issues are pretty complex, so if you are worried about getting heart attack, talk to your doctor about it.  If you think you are having one, just remember these two things: 911 and aspirin.\n\nP.s. Some people like to get a service where they could call 911 directly using a bracelet or a nacklace device.  Forgot what the company is called.  It is good for people who live alone, so if the fall and can't get to the phone, the help can be summoned anyway.
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Heart disease kills more than both and all can be linked to smoking
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No. Not at all.\n\nSnopes.com have debunked this one pretty thoroughly. Here is an extract (click on the link below to read the whole thing)...\n\n\nDr. Richard O. Cummins, Seattle's director of emergency cardiac care, explains that cough CPR raises the pressure in the chest just enough to maintain some circulation of oxygen-containing blood and help enough get to the brain to maintain consciousness for a prolonged period. But cough CPR should be used only by a person about to lose consciousness, an indication of cardiac arrest, he cautions. It can be dangerous for someone having a heart attack that does not result in cardiac arrest. Such a person should call for help and then sit quietly until help arrives, he says.\n\nIn other words, the procedure might be the right thing to attempt or it might be the very thing that would kill the afflicted depending on which sort of cardiac crisis is being experienced. Without a doctor there to judge the situation and, if cough CPR is indicated, to supervise the rhythmic coughing, the procedure is just far too risky for a layman to attempt.\n\nForget about coughing — key to surviving a heart attack is obtaining proper medical assistance within a very limited window of opportunity. Once an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been diagnosed, speedy injection of thrombolytic agents to dissolve clots is of the utmost importance — the more quickly those drugs are delivered, the better the chances of survival are. It's a race against the clock.\n\nMost patients who present with minor chest pains usually look healthy and show no signs of a heart attack. Electrocardiogram (ECG) results tell the story though, so be sure to insist upon one being performed if you've any doubts at all. Often mild heart attacks are left untreated and undetected because hospital staff mistake a heart attack for something more benign because the presenting symptoms are minor.\n\nRather than risk killing yourself with cough CPR, those experiencing a heart attack should heed the advice of physicians the world over — down a couple of Aspirin as an emergency remedy. Doctors believe that during the early stages of a heart attack, Aspirin — which is known to prevent blood platelets from sticking together — can prevent a clot from getting bigger. In 1991 Dr. Michael Vance, president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, recommended that people who think they are having a heart attack should "Call 911, then take an Aspirin."
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Please see your doctor. People are having heart attacks younger and younger these days. I've lost a couple of good friends because they didn't take heart health seriously. Mainly because they were hardly 30 years old. And heart attacks don't just happen to fat people. I'm not saying this to freak you out. It's so simple to go to the doctor and ask questions. You can prevent so much
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A procedure that introduces a catheter into the arteries of your heart carries a risk of death.\nIt is rare but it does happen. I had a patient go into cardiac arrest during a cardiac cath. He was resusitated.\nPrior to any procedure the surgeon will run through any risks the procedure might carry.
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This is all about fear,  why are you so worried about your heart,  have you had someone in your family die of a heart attack.  write out the reasons why you are fearful, becuase their is a reason why you are afraid, fears are irraational and most of what we fear does not come true, talk to someone about this the smaritans.  By joyce meyers book the confidant woman, she talks alot about fear and overcomine it.  www.joycemeyer.org  take care, remember to pray and God is looking after you.
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ABSOLUTLY NOT. What is wrong with you guys? He is in a very dangerous situation. If it's not treated, the infection will likely become septic ( poison his bloodstream, if it hasn't already). This is an infection, more dangerous than many. If the infection gets to his heart, he could very easily die, and without immediate treatment, he will. I've seen this tragedy two times in the ER. GO NOW, not later, or tomorrow. This is a job for an oral surgeon.\n\n\nGrizz
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NO BUT THERE IS CHANCE OF HEART ATTACK AND KIDNEY PROBLEMS.
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Daniel Hale Willams\n\n\non July 9, 1893, a young Black man named James Cornish was injured in a bar fight, stabbed in the chest with a knife. By the time he was transported to Provident Hospital he was seeking closer and closer to death, having lost a great deal of blood and having gone into shock. Williams was faced with the choice of opening the man's chest and possibly operating internally when that was almost unheard of in that day in age. Internal operations were unheard of because any entrance into the chest or abdomen of a patient would almost surely bring with it resulting infection and therefore death. Williams made the decision to operate and opened the man's chest. He saw the damage to the man's pericardium (sac surrounding the heart) and sutured it, then applied antiseptic procedures before closing his chest. Fifty one days later, James Cornish walked out of Provident Hospital completely recovered and would go on to live for another fifty years. Unfortunately, Williams was so busy with other matters, he did not bother to document the event and others made claims to have first achieved the feat of performing open heart surgery. Fortunately, local newspapers of the day did spread the news and Williams received the acclaim he deserved. It should be noted however that while he is known as the first person to perform an open heart surgery, it is actually more noteworthy that he was the first surgeon to open the chest cavity successfully without the patient dying of infection. His procedures would therefore be used as standards for future internal surgeries.
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I don't need to tell you that his symptoms and his family history means that a heart attack MUST be ruled out. I guarentee that if he goes to a hospital they will take him as serious as a train wreck. You need to push, drag, or get his buddies to carry him to the ER. If he has had a heart attack, he may live through it but maybe not the next one, I can't tell you enough how I would like to drag him myself to the hospital. He needs help now!!
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There is no 100% fool proof way to prevent a heart attack.  Eat right, get enough exercise, and dont smoke are the best ideas, but even then, its still possible to have a heart attack.
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Did you keep the appointment with the neurolgist? Have you seen your family physician? I work at a hospital as a tech on a cardiac floor. You need to see your family doctor pronto and keep him informed as to the ongoing situation. Also, a heart attack does not have to radiate down the arm. Lose of consciousness with head and back of neck pain can equal extremely high blood pressure. Which could lead to stroke as well as heart attack. Seek more medical attention!!
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Yes you should find out the cause of these pains , then you can decide if you need to worry. If you dont find out the cause then I am going to worry. I have had several sucessful heart attacks, Angioplasty , and quadrupal Bipass Surgary . I am now 64 years old , my first heart attack was when I was 45 but I know many people who have had them when they were much younger. You should know that one of every three people who have heart attacks have little or no warning except sudden death. Dont worry ...Just do somthing!!!
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that's greatly debatable. one group of researchers say yes, one says no. It varies person to person and situation to situation. Some people can handle stress better than others can. While stress does cause the blood pressure to rise, its not a permanent rise. it is more likely that stress causes strokes than heart attacks. If you stop and think about it, more people suffer from CVAs and TIAs after the death of a spouse or child than they do heart attacks. While those who take on the role of caregiver to a child or spouse who has become ill and are no longer able to care for themselves develop poor eating habits, sacrificing their health to look after their loved one, which ultimately leads to heart disease (among other things) which leads to heart attacks.
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Depends on how bad the attack is, my grandad lived for another 13 yrs after his attack. It also depends on how strong your heart is too i spose.
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When most people say "heart attack," they mean an MI -- myocardial infarction.  This is usually caused when a plaque in one of the heart's blood vessels ruptures and blocks the vessel.  The heart muscle supplied by this vessel starves from lack of oxygen.  If the clot is not eliminated in eight hours or so, most of the heart muscle in that region is irreversably damaged.  Survival after a heart attack depends on how long it takes to get treatment, and how much of the heart muscle is affected.  \n\nAnother kind of "heart attack" could be an arrhythmia -- the heart suddenly starts beating abnormally and is unable to sustain circulation.  You may have heard people being "scared to death."  Although this is very rare, it probably refers to the heart going into an arrhythmia called pulseless ventricular tachycardia.