How to Handle Heart Emergencies

Cardiac emergency

There might be mainly two types of cardiac emergency:

Heart attack:

• If someone is having a heart attack then following symptoms may be observed:
• The person may be out of breath.
• The person may feel discomfort.
• The person may have pain in his chest, jaws, upper abdomen and upper back.
• The Person may feel nausea.
• The person may start sweating excessively.

What to do:

• Check out the pulse of the person having heart attack.
• If he has a history of vessel congestion give him aspirin or nitroglycerin to chew and swallow.
• Perform CPR.
• Call for emergency.

Cardiac arrest:

Heart attack is more subtle while when person is having cardiac arrest it may be dramatic.

• You have to act fast.
• Perform CPR.
• Call for emergency.