The physician will do a thorough clinical examination and also request some investigations such as ECG, X-Ray Chest, Blood sugar, cholesterol and cardiac enymes, and sometimes an echocardiograph. Medicines may be given to control the pain, and to increase the blood circulation to the heart. Complications would also be treated. Oxygen, light diet, and sedation would be given according to the individual needs of the patient. Prolonged bed rest is to be avoided in the elderly because it will lead to complications such as chest infection, pressure sores, dehydration, hypotension, loss of balance and depression.
Early ambulation is important in the treatment of elderly with heart attack.
But ofcourse, one should bear in mind that all these will vary according the individual needs of a patient. Heart Failure is the condition where the heart ceases to function properly due to heart diseases like hypertension, heart attack, diseases of the heart valves and severe anaemia. Heart failure occurs because of heart diseases like hypertension, heart attack, diseases of the valves of the heart and severe anaemia. The symptoms depend on whether the right side or the left side of the heart is failing. But usual symptoms are breathlessness on exertion, and breathlessness at night.