Women symptoms vary considerably from men symptoms in heart attacks. If you feel an intense and suffocating pain in the chest for more than 15 minutes and doesn’t stop at nitroglycerin it means that you are having a heart attack. American Heart Association and other experts suggest that we should pay attention to the following signals: pain, squeezing, fullness in the center of the heart, pain radiating in the shoulder and arms, burning, pressure, heavy weight. Other symptoms may be: fainting, nausea, sweating, shortness of breath, anxiety, irregular heart rate, pallor, anxiety, nervousness. If you notice any of these symptoms you should address immediately to the emergency medical services at 911 or begin the CPR.
The doctor will diagnose the heart attack after studying several tests: EKG a device that gives the graphical record of the heart’s electrical activity, a physical examination and knowing the complete medical history of the patient, high enzymes in the blood appear in heart attack, those steps are also helpfull. Cardiac enzymes may be determined later in the intensive care unit and urgent care setting so they confirm or infirm the suspicions of heart attack. Cardiac pain is dull, vague and has been described as pressure, fullness, squeezing and other sensation of discomfort.
Often heart attack is slowly with mild pain and the person in cause doesn’t understand what’s happening, on the other hand the heart attack might be intense and movie-like. The most common signs are: chest discomfort which may be felt as pain, pressure, squeezing, fullness and which may last for minutes. Other symptoms are: pain in both arms, neck, stomach, back, shortness of breath, nausea, cold sweating.
Heart attack symptoms in women
The most common symptom met in women and men is some sort of pain: pressure, discomfort in the chest. Sometimes this pain radiates in the back, in the neck and gives abdominal pain and manifestations with nausea and vomiting, dizziness and unexplained fatigue. Heart attacks may have the symptoms that you see in movies, but there are some that have no clear manifestations or very mild ones, but don’t let them cheat on you and don’t mistake them for indigestion or anxiety.
Try not to drive yourself to the hospital the best choice is to call 911 or any other emergency service as soon as possible after you suppose it’s possible to have a heart attack. Sometimes the heart attack symptoms may act as an indigestion with a sensation of fainting and pain in the middle of the abdomen.
Studies have shown that heart attacks are more frequent in winter, diabetic people have silent heart attacks which means that there is no pain in the chest.
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Groshan Fabiola
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Should a person refuse emergency medical help if they won’t be able to afford the bill?
Example: Someone was having a heart attack or stroke or medical emergency in the middle of the street. And someone calls the ambulance. When the ambulance come, is the person allowed to refuse to get in because they don’t want to pay all the bills. (ambulance ride, doctors, xrays etc)
This is America. No money, no problem. You are cared for free of charge. BY LAW!
This cannot happen.
Sure, a person can refuse med treatment if they want to, but this is a false reason.
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Yes, he can refuse. But it wouldn’t be advisable.
As bad as American healthcare is, according to liberals, it still would help a person who can’t afford it in an emergency.
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Trust me…if your life is on the line, the last thing you are going to worry about is the bill afterwards.
Although, this question has come up regarding other things (non life threatening emergencies). In that case, yes, you can refuse treatment.
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People are allowed to refuse medical treatment if they’re adults and they’re capable of making rational decisions.
But there is no reason to refuse medical help if you can’t afford the bill – hospitals are required to help people in emergencies whether or not they can pay, and hospitals understand that some people they help won’t be able to pay.
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The hospital’s idea about whether you can afford to pay and your idea may not be the same. What the hospital thinks are reasonable charges may not be the same as your opinion. If you have a house and income they will hound you into bankruptcy if they think they can get away with it.
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Yes the person can refuse. But if the medical personnel decide that the person is not fit to make decisions for themselves or if the person is not able to respond, then the medical personnel are legally obligated to take the person to the hospital. Besides, if someone is in that severe of shape, the only thing they really can do is go to the hospital. Or else they could just die?
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First responder and Firefigher
thats a question to ask our congress men. haha the USA’s systems for everything are so twisted!!!!
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Should not have to, anyone refusing medical treatment to any one in need of it, especially life saving ,ought to get life sentence -no matter what big corporation they work for. How does one know at the time,that the person really CAN’T afford it? Who cares anyway??
There are still some of us who do treatment for free.
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This is America, with the worst health care system in the industrial world. It’s ones right to say no to care. And hospitals turn people away every day in America, wake up people, we need this system changed.
Don’t count on the bad rhetoric from the Limbaughcans. We need reform so this can’t happen any more.
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