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If there is any change in heart rhythm or rate above or below a preset range, an alarm will sound and within seconds skilled personnel will act to forestall or correct whatever is wrong—most often an irregularly or rapidly beating heart, shock or total cessation of circulatory ftinc* tions. '
Despite the fact that the first hours are the most critical, one group of researchers found that the average “deci* sion time”—that is, the time intervening between the onset of symptoms and lifting the phone off the cradle—is three or more hours.
On the average, it is believed. about eight hours elapse between the start of warning signs and one’s admission to a hospital emergency room.
The decision to seek medical assistance is far too serious to be entrusted to the patient himself. It is a respom sibility that must be accepted by the wife, husband, relative, or friend.
In the next installment, we shall examine the coronary care unit and its enormous life-saving potential—a potential which depends v e r y largely on recognition of symptoms, and moving immediately to seek medical assist a nee
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