Your health care provider examines you and asks about your immediate symptoms and your medical history. It gives early information about areas of heart muscle that are damaged. Your blood oxygen level can be monitored by a sensor that is attached to your finger or ear. Blood tests are used to find out whether the heart muscle has been damaged. These tests may be done in the hospital or after you leave the hospital.
Heart attacks require immediate hospital treatment.
Medicines that dissolve the coronary artery blood clot are quickly given through a vein and by mouth. Your heart rhythm is monitored and possibly dangerous rhythms are treated promptly. Some people need a temporary heart pacemaker. You may stay in the hospital 2 to 6 days. For part of that time, you will probably be in a special intensive care unit for heart patients.