Doctors Say Average Heart Attack Victim Doesn’t Clutch At Chest Nearly Dramatically Enough

[Katashi_itto]

[SheilaT]

1. That's hilarious!

I've never had a heart attack myself, nor have I ever been around someone in the throes of one, but now I know exactly how to behave if it happens to me or someone in my presence!

[PADemD]

2. Unrec

Watching someone die from a heart attack is nothing to joke about.

Been there.

[Roy Serohz]

3. Agreed

Plus, a medical "spoof" doesn't belong on a political website.

[petronius]

4. This is valuable info, but this sort of training needs to start much earlier in life

I mean, if people don't even know that they're supposed to thrash wildly and scream and gurgle while drowning, which is a reasonable childhood risk, how are they going to live long enough to execute a really theatrical heart attack in later years?

[Katashi_itto]

5. Lol!

[HubertHeaver]

6. Not bad advice, really.

My heart attack presented as a gall bladder attack. At the ER I was triaged back out to the waiting room where I stayed for four hours. Gall bladder attacks, while painful, aren't usually fatal.

My turn finally came and they took me back to the treatment area and did an ultrasound on my gall bladder. I could tell from the look on the tech's face that she wasn't finding anything. They took away the ultrasound equipment and brought in the EKG. Couldn't get a good reading. They blamed that on poor contact because of all my hair so they shaved me and tried again. The cardiologist came in and proclaimed the EKG to be abnormal and that I was having a heart attack.

The point is a heart attack doesn't have to be the classic crushing chest pain. But, if thrashing about and screaming will get you to treatment sooner, do it.

[LiberalArkie]

8. I never had any indication except feeling weak, sweating a lot in a cold area

My co-workers called a ambulance and indeed I had one. If I had been alone at home, I would have probably died because I would had thought I had come down with the flu or something.

[HubertHeaver]

9. That is what happened to one of my uncles.

Went home from work sick, laid down in bed and died. We found him two days later.

[onecent]

7. This is horrid....you must have never

had a family member who had a heart attack.

[Katashi_itto]

13. I've had two family die. I have had one attack and a triple bypass four days later.

They didn't react when they had theirs. No one knew.

I would say more about you, but that would get a block

[drynberg]

10. This should have been stopped from listing, it's mean, pointless and did I say cruel?

[HubertHeaver]

11. I had one of the more silent variety of infarctions.

Triage protocol put me back in the waiting room for four hours instead of on the EKG immediately. If you have any abdominal, upper chest or back pain, scream like hell. Act out, within the bounds of what a heart attack is supposed to look like, until you get the EKG. It may save your life.

The thread is not pointless and certainly not cruel.

[Katashi_itto]

12. Exactly I had a heart attack and triple bypass. I sure as hell let everyon know what was happening.

Letting others know saved my life.