IN CASE OF A HEART ATTACK

The heart specialists have elaborated a system of treat­ment for heart attacks. The main thing is urgent medical assistance, prevention and treatment of the dangerous com­plications — cardio-vascular insufficiency, cardiogenic shock, disruption of the heartbeat rhythm and thromboembolism. Primarily, the system is hinged on early hospitalization —right when the heart attack begins. The ambulance service has special heart attack treatment teams that can get to the person as quickly as possible and give first aid even while the patient is on the way to the hospital in the ambulance, which has diagnostic and treatment instruments.

This type of team (doctor, assistant and attendant) is the first link.

The second is the intensive care ward at the clinic, where the most sophisticated methods of diagnosis and treatment are used.