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Introduction to Early
Heart Attack Care - Heart attacks need not kill or destroy heart muscle
What Do We Know
About Heart Attacks - Check the Facts
What Do We Mean
by EHAC - Definitions
Overcoming Reluctance
- Getting Your Patients to Seek Help
EHAC Position Statement
- Fundamentals of Early Heart Attack Care
EHAC Quiz - Do You Know
The Basics?
Heart Attacks Have
Beginnings - Early Heart Attack Care Can Make A Difference
EHAC Deputies
In The WorkPlace - Nearly 60% of heart attacks begin
when the victim is at work
EHAC Deputies In The
Community - The Activation Of The Community in Heart
Attack Response
EHAC Deputies In The Schools
- Heart Attack Prevention for Prepared Youth
Youth Taking Action - A Student
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Heart attacks need
not kill or destroy heart muscle if you listen when your body is trying
to tell you something.
To my patient and friend. . . a heartfelt
message:
The heart is a tremendous pump. l say that
because it has tremendous reserve capacity. It can pump 5 liters per minute
up to 50 liters per minute allowing you to do whatever is physically necessary
to meet your demands. To do so the muscle needs nourishment and 3 heart
vessels are given that task. It is only when these vessels are blocked that
this reserve capacity is interfered with and invalidism ensues.
I can tell you about cholesterol, hypertension, and
cigarette smoking and how controlling these you can prevent the development
of blockage within these vessels.... but what I would like to tell you even
more so is that it is very important for you to understand that when something
is going wrong in one of these vessels and is about ready to take your life
and muscle, it is important that you act quickly. When that vessel becomes
majorly blocked off, there is at times a disruption that brings about a
clot fully closing the vessel. It does not do so immediately, but usually
takes place over a period of time. It is this period of time (grace period)
that you have to be cognizant about. It is this period of time that you
have to listen to your body and act so that damage can be averted with cardioprotective
medications. This can he followed by diagnostic tests to tell what the problem
is.
It is possible to
prevent damage when these signs and symptoms are acted upon. Prevention
is a key word in medicine, but it also takes place when you act fast when
symptoms are minimal for you to protect the muscular pump that allows for
your full life activities.
So my patient and friend be aware what heart attacks
are all about. Help prevent the enabling process that takes place.
Be in contact with yourself and become an Early
Heart Attack Care Giver to yourself and to your loved ones. It is
with this thought in mind that I ask you to take this pledge that commits
you to action when someone in your presence has the early warning signs
of a heart attack. If you do it, you can teach others and together we can
form a network which will one day reduce
heart disease from being the number one health problem in our Nation.
Take care my patient and friend. You have a lot of
life ahead of you. Just tune in for messages, because once in awhile your
body is trying to tell you something.
Sincerely,
Raymond D. Bahr, M. D.
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