Right away, call for an
ambulance to take you to the hospital. While
you wait for the ambulance to come, chew one regular tablet of aspirin.
Don''t take the
aspirin if you''re allergic to aspirin.If you
can, go to a hospital with advanced care facilities for people with
heart attacks. In these medical centers, the latest heart
attack technology is available 24 hours a day. This technology includes rapid
thrombolysis (breaking up clots using
medicines called "clot busters"),
cardiac catheterization and angioplasty.In the hospital, you
might be given "clot busters" that reopen the arteries to your heart
very fast. Nurses and technicians will place an IV line (intravenous
line) in your arm to give you medicines. They will also do an
electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), give you oxygen to breathe, and watch
your heart rate and rhythm on a monitor.
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