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Surviving A Heart Attack

We have some advice for anyone who has watched too many of those Bollywood medical dramas, where suddenly the character collapses after a heart attack. The paramedics arrive at the scene. The heart monitor reveals a completely flat line – no heartbeat – but a heroic effort saves the character’s life. It makes fine drama, says Dr. R.N. Kalra, Medical Director & CEO R&D, Kalra Hospital. In real life, the situation and outcome is almost always different.

At Kalra Hospital, we execute the Chain of Survival, a series of steps to be followed in order to improve a person’s chances of survival. Ideally, a bystander recognizes that someone has gone into cardiac arrest, and calls emergency immediately.

If the person collapses, is not responding and has stopped breathing, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) should be performed, while emergency medical personnel are on their way. But here, Dr. Kalra offers another reality check: CPR alone has only revived fewer than five percent of victims. However, CPR can ensure an adequate supply of oxygen, and prevent brain damage until the paramedics arrive.

After a cardiac arrest, Dr. Kalra says, a person’s heart is usually quivering like "a bowl of jelly," a condition popularly known as fibrillation, because normal electrical activity has been badly disrupted. Paramedics can re-establish the heartbeat by an electric shock with a portable defibrillator. "It stops the disorganized electrical activity momentarily," says Dr. Kalra, "just long enough to re-set the nodes, which are like the sparkplugs of the heart."

The final step in the Chain of Survival has some resemblance to those Bollywood medical dramas. The victim is lifted into the ambulance, and whisked to the nearest hospital where doctors and nurses work heroically to stabilize the heart and, hopefully, save yet another precious life.

Excerpts by Dr. R.N. Kalra
Medical Director & CEO, R&D
Kalra Hospital & SRCNC

By Dr. Ankur Kalra
CEO, e-Medicine & Promotions
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