"24-Hour Heart Service Saves Lives!"


Heart attacks are becoming common nowadays among all ages and in both sexes. A 20-year old boy as well as a 70-year old lady can be victim of heart attack equally. Many people think that heart attacks are a "man's problem"; yet heart disease is actually the number one killer of both men and women.

Wrong food habits and sedentary life style attribute for development of heart attack. Smoking, including passive smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes mellitus, overweight, physical inactivity, tensions and worries also contribute for heart attacks. Genetical disposition also plays a vital part, viz. if a father gets heart attack, the son also may get a heart attack.

When the patient develops a severe chest pain with or without sweating, it is highly suspicious of heart attack. If there is a typical chest pain or "gas trouble", many patients may take it lightly and any delay in diagnosis results in death.

In America, 400,000 people die of heart attacks every year, out of which 1,00,000 people die in their houses or offices. 1,00,000 people die of ventricular fibrillation, viz. irregular fast heart. This defibrillation can be effectively treated by a defibrillator, by giving electrical shock treatment, which can be given in ones house itself. Some patients develop "heart blocks", for which a "pace maker" is required to be implanted.

Emergency Help Line

Emergency Number 0965039695026 is available, on which you can summon an ambulance service from your house. The ambulance will reach your home within 20 minutes and the treatment is started in your house.

Golden Hour!

If a victim of heart attack has to be saved, the treatment must be commenced within the first sixty minutes, which is called the "Golden Hour". Any delay results in the heart muscle dying and this results in more damage to the heart and more chances of death. The time lag between the development of chest pain and injection of a clot-buster (thrombolysis) should be less than 60 minutes. If this is done timely, the ischemic muscle completely revives and thus the heart is saved totally. Achieving PROMPT MEDICAL ATTENTION is THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR for an improved prognosis with a heart attack. Rapid evaluation allows early treatment of potentially life-threatening arrhythmias, and permits early "reperfusion" (return of blood flow)of the heart muscle. The sooner that reperfusion is established, the smaller the resultant heart attack will be.












Emergency Angiography and Angioplasty

After admission into the hospital, an emergency cardio angiogram can be performed to detect the blockages in the artery. Angioplasty using stents, (drug eluding stents), if done properly and effectively, the patient can be cured.

24-Hour Heart Service at SHRC, is equipped with: