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Article: QUICK ACTION FOR HEART ATTACKS.(the importance of calling for help when a heart attack is first suspected)(Brief Article)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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The first hour of a heart attack can be a killer--don't delay calling 911.
11:00 a.m. Saturday morning at the pancake house: Ed orders his usual country breakfast special--eggs, bacon, pancakes, and a side of hash browns. As usual, he leaves feeling uncomfortably full.
11:45 a.m. Ed becomes nauseated and feels a heavy pressure in his chest. But he passes it off as just indigestion.
12:15 p.m. Chest pain continues.
12:45 p.m. When Ed starts to sweat profusely, his wife calls 911.
1:15 p.m. Treatment begins.
Ed's delay is typical. Half of all people who have heart attacks wait two hours or longer before seeking ...