Rak Hospital Educates Masses In Identifying Heart Attack Symptoms

Warning indicators can differ for women and men, warning docs

Signs may also embody jaw, neck and shoulder ache, nausea, dizziness, feeling sick, breaking into chilly sweat, feeling lightheaded and fatigued.

Sufferers who make it to emergency room in time can have as much as 90 % survival probabilities

Coronary heart illnesses stay the primary killer among the many UAE residents, lead to 30 % of deaths.

Rising variety of coronary heart sufferers beneath the age of 40.

Mistaking the indicators of coronary heart assault and taking them evenly may result in intense cardiac harm and typically demise, is the message of RAK Hospital’s month-long consciousness marketing campaign that begins tomorrow. Docs warn that moreover extra frequent indicators of cardiac-related illnesses, it’s the seemingly unrelated and harmless indications – resembling neck, jaw and again ache – that might sign an issue with one’s coronary heart. The programme addresses the alarming enhance in cardiac-related illnesses within the UAE, whereas educating the general public on figuring out signs of a coronary heart assault which are sometimes ignored resulting from lack of awareness. Furthermore, the marketing campaign highlights the ‘Golden Hour Interval’, since reaching the hospital inside an hour of the assault can usually make all of the distinction.

“Opposite to basic notion, coronary heart assault doesn’t all the time present itself via chest and arm ache,” harassed Dr Raza Siddiqui, CEO Arabian Healthcare Group and Government Director of RAK Hospital, “Even an odd again ache or dizziness may very well be an indication of a coronary heart drawback, however individuals are likely to ignore such signs. With this marketing campaign we wish to draw the general public’s consideration in the direction of the necessary incontrovertible fact that any irregular behaviour of your physique wants consideration, and one ought to seek the advice of a physician instantly. Simply this small precautionary measure can go a great distance in limiting harm to your coronary heart.”

Whereas coronary heart assault signs can differ from individual to individual, the extra frequent ones embody ache, stress, heaviness or tightness in chest, arm, again, jaw, neck or shoulders; feeling sick or dizzy, breaking into chilly sweat, shortness of breath and feeling lightheaded and fatigued. The warning indicators may also differ for women and men: whereas girls might really feel nauseous, vomit or endure from jaw or again ache, males may expertise shortness of breath, chest discomfort and arm ache. The ache usually lasts for a couple of minutes and might worsen with any bodily exercise. In response to docs sufferers who make it to emergency room in time can have as much as 90 % survival probabilities.

Dr Ajay Kanojia, Senior Specialist, Cardiology at RAK Hospital added: “Typically, individuals shrug off the discomfort considering they don’t seem to be the appropriate match for a coronary heart assault affected person. However the unhappy reality is the illness may also happen in people who find themselves seemingly match, younger, non-smokers and haven’t any household historical past of cardiac-related illnesses. It’s all the time a good suggestion to get your self evaluated; higher to be secure than sorry”.

A current survey by the Dubai Well being Authority and Dubai Statistics Centre confirmed that coronary heart illnesses stay the primary killer among the many UAE residents leading to 30 % of deaths. The survey that was performed on 3,298 Emirati and expatriate households additional discovered that round 32 % of the contributors have been borderline overweight, whereas 12 % have been overweight. Round 22 % have been non-smokers. One other report claimed that an rising variety of younger individuals on the UAE are affected by coronary heart illnesses with an increase in coronary heart situations in sufferers beneath the age of 40.

RAK Hospital has been an lively campaigner in creating consciousness amongst plenty on numerous well being points. Earlier this 12 months, the healthcare establishment additionally gained the excellence of conducting the UAE’s first-ever non-surgical balloon dilation process on a affected person’s coronary heart to take away an unnatural development.

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