Getting
treatment within 60 minutes can prevent permanent disability.
VERY IMPORTANT:
IF YOU FEEL:
Chest discomfort.
Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest
that lasts for more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes
back. The discomfort can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing,
fullness, or pain.
Discomfort
in other areas of the upper body. Can include pain or discomfort
in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, or stomach.
Shortness
of breath. Often comes along with chest discomfort. But it also
can occur before chest discomfort.
Other symptoms.
May include breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea, or light-headedness.
You could
be having a heart attack
The pain is associated with nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath,
cold sweats, dizziness or palpitations and the longer it lasts,
(over 30 min.) the more likely it has progressed to a heart attack
(MI or 'myocardial infarction') with damage or death of heart
muscle. Sometimes, particularly in women, the elderly, the diabetic,
and with smokers there may be no pain but just the other associated
symptoms or a sense of overwhelming fatigue.
