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Health News
A Heart Attack Life Saving Kit
Maj Gen Azhar Mahmood Kayani, a renowned cardiologist and Director General of Medicine Pakistan Armed Forces, delivered a talk on Prevention of Heart Diseases, at H-12 Campus NUST, Islamabad on 29 March 2012. He introduced a very handy kit which could save a person’s life from dying of sudden heart attack.
Kit comprises of following items:-
a. Tablet Disprin - 4
b. Tablet Angisid - 4
c. Deponit NT5 skin patch – 1
The worthy professor elaborated that if one feels sudden tightness and pain in centre of chest, radiating to left arm or both sides of neck, accompanied by sweating and uneasiness, one is likely to be in a state of heart attack. Following immediate measures should be taken:-
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Chewing and swallowing one Disprin tablet immediately.
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Keeping one Angisid tablet under the tongue.
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Peeling of the thin plastic side of the patch and sticking the medicated hard side of the Deponit NT5 skin patch on the left side of the chest, near the armpit where there are no hair.
The items of this kit cost a little and without any specific expert handling can definitely save a person from dying immediately of a heart attack.
The patient should be taken to the hospital immediately and care must be taken that he undergoes no physical exertion or stress (even if he is feeling OK). He should be carried and not made to walk or climb stairs etc.
On way to hospital the patient should keep coughing vigorously every few seconds as is normally done to clear the phlegm from the chest in the morning while brushing one’s teeth.
It is advised that every individual, above 40 years should carry this kit inside one’s pocket, and also keep one handy near his bed and in the car glove compartment.
Happy and Safe Long Living.
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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