Hello Lionhearth,
Thank you for your question. In case of heart attack (Myocardial Infarction), it is best that one takes immediate coronary medication. Your doctor will probably prescribe you what is called Heparin , this is used for immediate / acute conditions after heart attack. Afterwards, you will be weened off heparin for warfarin (which is used for longterm treatment) After you suffer a heart attack, you will be placed under aspirin regimen for chronicity (long term) treatment as well as blood thinners, and platelet blockers.
Some medication that i would ask your doctor to prescribe you if you are already a patient with CVD (cardiovascular disease) :
1. Asprin
2. Heparin (to be taken if woman is pregnant)
3. Warfarin (not to be taken if woman is pregnant)--this is for chronic treatment.
In the event that a person is having a Myocardial Infarction, the patient will know that they have it by the following symptoms:
1. Retrosternal chest pain
2. Pain that radiates to back, left arm, and jaw of face
3. Pain does not go away and subsists for 2+ hour duration
If the pain does not go away after taking nitroglycerin, nitroprusside or any other venodilators (taken for angina), then this is a case of myocardial infarction.
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When you know that you are having a heart attack, you will want to call for 911 or immediately have yourself taken to the hospital. The physicians there will give you O2 therapy, at the same time they will give you an IV dose of thrombus-busters. They will give you Streptokinas, Urokinase or Altepase, which will literally break down the thrombin formation that is causing the atherosclerotic plaque forming in the arterial system, thus causing the infarction of the myocardium (heart apparatus).
It is important that the patient who is suffering the syptoms of infarction (cerebrovascular= stroke) or (myocardial = heart) be given these drugs in order to restore proper function of the heart and the brain. If the heart is deprived of proper blood , nercrosis will set in and the heart tissue will be replaced with fibrosis and thus lead to a decreased functioning of the heart. This will eventually cause Cardiomyopathy or cardiohypertrophy; this is the enlarged growth of the heart in order to compensate for the dead tissue in the surrounding heart apparatus. If this is uncorrected, will eventually lead to CHF (Congestive heart failure; chronic heart failure).
To answer your question; you might want to have with you asirin ; and carry it with you on daily basis so as to maintain your blood levels and prevent further accumulation of atherosclerotic plaque from forming into a total plug, which if it does, will cause a occlusion of the main arteries to the heart (coronary artery, right descending, interventricular, posterior coronary etc).
And remember to ask your doctor about heparin, warfarin, leuvovorin, streptokinase, urokinase, altepase, and asprin.
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For patients with heart problems or history of heart problems: remember this motto:
AN ASPIRIN A DAY KEEPS THE HEART ATTACK/ STROKE AWAY.
Yours,
Lorenzo
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