Facts about hear attack

1. Heart Attack

3. Right ventricle

4. Left atrium

6. Follow the arrows to see how blood flows through the heart.

7. Blood flow through the heart

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9. Probable Scenario Let's say it's 11.00pm and you're driving home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day doing your Comp.Book, Week 7. You're really tired, and frustrated… Suddenly you start experiencing Severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far You have been trained in CPR, But the guy that conducted the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

10. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing conscious.

11. DO NOT PANIC, BUT START COUGHING REPEATEDLY AND VERY VIGOROUSLY.

12. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

13. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

14. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.

15. Types of Heart Surgery Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization Valve Repair or Replacement Arrhythmia Treatment Aneurysm Repair Heart Transplant Open-Heart Surgery Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery

16. Heart surgery Heart surgery is done to correct problems with the heart. More than half a million heart surgeries are done each year in the United States for a variety of heart problems. Heart Surgery is done to : The most common type of heart surgery in adults is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). During CABG, surgeons use healthy arteries or veins taken from another part of the body to bypass (that is, go around) blocked arteries. Heart surgery also is done to repair or replace valves that control blood flow through the heart, repair structures in the heart, implant devices to regulate heart rhythms, or replace a damaged heart with a healthy heart from a donor

17. Traditional open-heart surgery is done by opening the chest wall to operate on the heart. The patient is connected to a heart-lung bypass machine. This machine takes over the pumping action of the heart, makes sure the blood gets enough oxygen, and allows surgeons to operate on a still heart. In recent years, new ways of doing heart surgery have been developed. One new way is off-pump, or beating heart, surgery. This is like traditional open-heart surgery, but it doesn't use a heart-lung bypass machine. Minimally invasive heart surgery uses smaller incisions (cuts) than traditional open-heart surgery. Some types of minimally invasive heart surgery use a heart-lung bypass machine and others don't. Heart surgery is used to treat people who have severe heart diseases and conditions when other treatments have failed. Minimally invasive heart surgery uses smaller incisions (cuts) than traditional open-heart surgery. Some types of minimally invasive heart surgery use a heart-lung bypass machine and others don't. These new methods may reduce risks and speed up recovery time. Studies are under way to compare these new types of heart surgery to traditional open-heart surgery. The results of these studies will help doctors decide the best procedure to use for each patient.

18. ANGIOPLASTY http://www.youtube.com/v/S9AqBd4RExk (Short) http://www.youtube.com/v/N7nghr9TpSU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_detailpage&fs=1 (Long)

19. Bypass Surgery http://www.youtube.com/v/3Nf6Q2skGOM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_detailpage&fs=1

20. Open Heart Surgery http://www.youtube.com/v/Zxqj1BcBpIg&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_detailpage&fs=1

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