How do you cure a heart attack?

Answer 1

* All patients being transported for chest pain should be managed as if the pain were ischemic in origin unless clear evidence to the contrary is established. * If available, an ALS unit should transport patients with hemodynamic instability or respiratory difficulty. * Prehospital notification by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel should alert ED staff to the possibility of a patient with MI. EMS personnel should receive online medical advice for a patient with high-risk presentation. * The American Heart Association (AHA) protocol can be adopted for use by prehospital emergency personnel. This protocol recommends empirical treatment of patients with suspected STEMI with morphine, oxygen, nitroglycerin, and aspirin. * Specific prehospital care includes the following: * ** Intravenous access, supplemental oxygen, pulse oximetry ** Immediate administration of aspirin en route ** Nitroglycerin for active chest pain, given sublingually or by spray ** Telemetry and prehospital ECG, if available * EMS protocol should be formulated to strongly consider taking patients with suspected MI/ACS, and certainly patients with STEMI, to facilities capable of PCI if geographically possible. * Prehospital thrombolysis allows eligible patients to receive thrombolysis 30-60 minutes sooner than if treatment were given in the ED; however, prehospital thrombolysis is still under investigation. (source: emedicine.com)

Answer 2

A heart attack is caused by a lack of blood flow, due to blockage, in the vessels that surround the heart. Stents are used as a treatment to create a clear path that blood can travel through. However if the heart attack has been left untreated, ie the person did go to the ER for a few days, damage can be done to the heart muscle. If this muscle is deprived of blood for to long the damage can't be reversed. A cure might imply that damage can be undone, and that's not the case.

Answer 3

A heart attack cannot be cured as it has already happened. Sometimes it cannot be survived.

The underlying problem causing the heart attack may be treatable depending on the cause.