It is important to be active or proactive, be heart smart, be an emergency heart attack care giver. Good Samaritans in this area will solve a problem by their timely actions. Because it is part of our life style. We constantly forget about ourselves and live our lives as if we are indestructible or immortal, and only are brought to reality when we are burnt. If that is so, perhaps we can minimize the burn and thereafter change the person.
Heart attack is a great transformer aud a great reality check.
The secret is to nip it when it is in the beginning stage, i.e., chest discomfort before the severe damage or the sudden death. It is very important. That reserve capacity we talked about allows us to increase the amount of blood pump five fold to do the things we want, such as tennis, marathon running, etc. With less heart action we do less and our quality of life suffers. Pumping on the chest for a cardiac arrest victim, helping a patient with a Mack truck sitting on his chest and trying to get him into the hospital or perhaps encouraging a patient with minimal symptoms to have it checked out, to be safe rather than sorry.