How To Survive A Heart Attack If You’re Alone

Many people suffer from a heart attack and often the outcome is deadly. The biggest fear is what if you are alone when the heart attack starts? Here we will explain what to do if this happens.
Knowing how to respond to the symptoms of a heart attack could be crucial to saving your life. In many cases it’s hard to act if you’re alone, but if you follow these recommendations you might be more likely to survive the event and get medical attention in time.
Is a heart attack the same as cardiac arrest?
People commonly make the mistake of believing that they’re the same, when in fact they are not. Although both cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction (the medical term for a heart attack) are caused by poor circulation and inadequate blood supply to the heart, they differ in their symptoms.
Cardiac arrest occurs when circulation in the body slows, which causes the heart’s contractions to become irregular or weakened. As a result, the body no longer receives adequate supplies of oxygen where it is needed and the person loses consciousness when this begins to affect the brain.
Meanwhile a heart attack, or myocardial infarction, occurs when blood flow is reduced to a particular area of the heart, usually due to a blocked artery. As a result, the tissue in this part of the heart begins to die, and if it goes untreated, this alteration of the supply of blood and oxygen can cause serious damage to the heart muscle. Common symptoms associated with heart attacks that can serve as an early warning sign include chest pain, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, excessive sweating, nausea, fatigue, dizziness, and more.
So now that we know the differences between cardiac arrest and a heart attack, we want to tell you how you should act to increase your chances of survival if you experience a heart attack while you’re alone. This is important: while there’s no fool-proof method to surviving a heart attack, what we’re going to share with you could still save your life.
What to do if you’re having a heart attack?
First, you have to call 911 if you’re feeling pain and discomfort in the region of your heart that raises suspicion. If you’ve already been diagnosed with any kind of heart disease, contact your regular doctor’s office immediately. If you happen to be driving a car and begin to experience any of the symptoms, pull over and call 911 as soon as possible.
No matter how close you are to an emergency room or health clinic, under no circumstances should you attempt to drive yourself there. You could lose consciousness while driving, causing an accident that could harm yourself and others.
If you’re already on some kind of medication to control your heart disease, it’s possible that you have a beta-blocker on hand. Take one while you wait for help to arrive. If this is your first heart attack, you should chew up and swallow an aspirin as quickly as you can. Aspirin helps prevent blood clots and improves blood flow by relaxing the walls of the arteries. This can help prevent the problem from getting worse while you wait.
When at all possible you need to remain still to avoid putting pressure on the heart muscle.
If you can, punch yourself in the chest over your heart, to keep it from expending the effort to pump itself. This is a very hard thing to do by yourself, and is more effective if someone else does it for you.
Now that you know what steps you should take to respond to a heart attack when you’re alone you might be wondering: why did we go to such effort to explain the difference between cardiac arrest and heart attacks? Well, chances are most of you have read at least a little bit of information about CPR either online or in a class, which is something that should only be administered during a heart attack.
Although this method has saved the lives of many people, it’s important to know that it’s not appropriate to use to treat cardiac arrest. Frequently these types of articles don’t clarify the difference between the two conditions, and a lot of people remain uncertain about what they should do to respond.
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