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Many heart attack deaths result from electricol irregularities of the heart. These abnormalities often can be corrected by the use of new electronic devices, new drugs and other techniques which are reducing in-hospital mortality from heart attack by about 30 per cent.
Your Heart Association foresees the realistic prospect of salvaging at least 50,000 “hearts too good to die” through specialized coronary care services, and has accepted some major challenges looking toward such an objective.
Its first goal is to bring about, through public and professional education, a drastic reduction in the time intervening between the onset of heart attack symptoms and the individual's admission to a hospital.
The key issue here is to acquaint millions of Americans with the need to get immediate medical pssi?tance, and to instantly recognize these usual warning symptoms of heart attack:
• A prolonged, oppressive pain or discomfort in the center of your chest, just behind the breast bone.
• The pain may radiate to a shoulder, arm, neck or jaw.
• The pain or discomfort is often accompanied by sweating.
• Nausea, vomiting and shortness of breath may also occur.
• The symptoms may subside, then return.
The second major objective of your Heart Association is to encourage an expansion of coronary care facilities to cover as many as possible of the nation’s 8,000 hospitals treating acutely ill patients, About 3,000 hospitals are now
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