That seems to cover a lot of ground if you're trying to determine if you're having a heart attack
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Real-life advice as to how you might know, even if you've had a cardiology check-up a few weeks before and your only issue is controlled high blood pressure:
No pain in chest or neck or jaw or stomach, no shortness of breath, no cold sweat, no nausea, no lightheadedness. Only PAIN which may have begun as back pain but quickly accelerated to all-encompassing and all-consuming pain which fills the entire upper section of your chest area, as if somehow severe pain was pumped in and occupies that section of your body. There is no room for speculation, even if your history doesn't seem to indicate you're a candidate for heart attack. You know.
Of course, there are degrees of heart attack severity. It's been found some heart attacks occurred without ever having been detected.
Case in point, B. had a brief occurrence of chest pain and at arrival at the hospital cardiac unit, the cardiologist was ready to discharge her as she was then symptom-free. But there is now (I don't know the length of its availability) a test for a cardiac enzyme, Troponin, whose presence detects heart attacks. When the lab released her results, she underwent the placement of two stents in non-critical coronary arteries.
Troponoin acceptable range is 0-54. I don't know what B's was, nor did she. But I do happen to know that Troponin can range from 554 to 37,616 and if treatment of stent placement is within an hour or so, the patient can survive.
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