Symptoms of a Heart Attack
The most typical symptom of a heart attack is an oppressive, crushing pain behind the breastbone. This pain often radiates to the jaw and left arm. The pain may also radiate to the back and shoulders. Also include nausea and sweating to the symptoms. Furthermore, sometimes heart palpitations, skipping the heart, dizziness, heart pounding and the observed tendency to fainting. Swoon is also possible, especially in the heavier strokes.
Sometimes the victims suffer from shortness of breath, vomiting and sweating. A pain in the chest that lasts more than 20 minutes or repeated short attacks of pain (more than 1 time per hour) are very suspicious for a heart attack. These alarms also need urgent medical attention. A person affected by a cardiac arrest is unconscious. The victim stopped breathing and unresponsive when he or she is drawn on the shoulders and gently agitated. The normal color disappears. You can check by breathing the head slightly backwards and push the chin up. You feel your cheek and listen to the mouth. With cardiac arrest stops the heart with pumping, so no blood and no oxygen circulating through the body. The result is that a person becomes unconscious within a few seconds and the risk of brain damage and death is significant.
