Heart Attack Blues

Heart Attack Blues Terrence Baruch, MD, FACC In heart attacks, time is muscle. Survival and a good outcome depend on acting promptly. Call 911 at once! Heart Attack Blues gives readers the crucial information that can be the difference between life and death. In this short book, you’ll learn how to know your risk factors for a heart attack and what can you do about them. You’ll also learn how to know if you’re having a heart attack. You’ll learn to recognize common—and uncommon—symptoms. You’ll also learn what happens when a heart attack strikes and how heart attacks are different in women. If you’re having a heart attack, fast action could save your life. Heart Attack Blues teaches you why it’s so important to get help as quickly as possible. And crucially, Heart Attack Blues teaches you why it’s important to go to the right hospital. Heart Attack Blues answers these life-saving questions and more in clear, easily understood language, with many engaging case studies from Dr. Baruch’s extensive experience. This e-book also contains links to illustrations, videos, and valuable additional information at the Heart Attack Blues website.

Heart Attack Blues Terrence Baruch, MD, FACC In heart attacks, time is muscle. Survival and a good outcome depend on acting promptly. Call 911 at once! Heart Attack Blues gives readers the crucial information that can be the difference between life and death. In this short book, you’ll learn how to know your risk factors for a heart attack and what can you do about them. You’ll also learn how to know if you’re having a heart attack. You’ll learn to recognize common—and uncommon—symptoms. You’ll also learn what happens when a heart attack strikes and how heart attacks are different in women. If you’re having a heart attack, fast action could save your life. Heart Attack Blues teaches you why it’s so important to get help as quickly as possible. And crucially, Heart Attack Blues teaches you why it’s important to go to the right hospital. Heart Attack Blues answers these life-saving questions and more in clear, easily understood language, with many engaging case studies from Dr. Baruch’s extensive experience. This e-book also contains links to illustrations, videos, and valuable additional information at the Heart Attack Blues website.

Terrence Baruch, MD, FACC has been practicing interventional cardiology since 1992 in the Pasadena-Arcadia area of Los Angeles County, California. He has performed more than 10,000 cardiac procedures in that time; well over 500 have been emergency angioplasties for treatment of acute myocardial infarction. He is the director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and the founder and director of the Heart Attack Program at the Methodist Hospital of Southern California. Dr. Baruch played an active role in the development of one of the first regional heart attack programs in southern California. He helped develop a program that trained emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to recognize a suspected heart attack, stabilize the patient, and then transport him or her to a cardiac center of excellence. Because of his expertise and vast experience, Dr. Baruch has been a national speaker on the state-of-the-art treatment of myocardial infarction, sponsored by companies such as Schering-Plough, Lilly, and Aventis. He has lectured at multiple hospitals in more than 20 different states, including Alaska and Hawaii. He has provided educational materials, guidelines, pathways, and sample hospital orders to these institutions so that they could organize their own STEMI programs.