Today I learned how to act when it happens a infarct and a heart attack. Learn also to save lives!

Motivated by many events that occurred worldwide in the company where I work, it organized an induction on how we should act in the event of a heart attack to a work partner, family member or any other person, using the Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation technique (CPR). Already from this moment I consider that I have a moral and social responsibility to act in the presence of one of these. Which is why I am motivated to share the knowledge acquired with you.

This post is my authorship and was translated by google translator

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The main thing is to know when a infarct occurs and when a cardiac arrest occurs.
The infarction does not generate loss of knowledge. Only a strong pain in the chest and left or right arm of the person who is suffering. The person is going to keep conscious, which is why we have to act by taking him to a health center so that he receives the care he needs. It should be noted that the heart attack is a blockage (blood clot or fat) of one or more blood vessels that surrounds the heart, this stops perceiving the blood through this channel and produces pain. This part of the heart dies, the rest continues to function.
On the other hand is the heart attack. First we understand that the heart performs two movements, systole and diastole, where it contracts and then expands to distribute blood throughout our body and mainly to the brain. When a heart attack occurs it is because these movements got out of control and the heart does not manage to coordinate itself to carry out its normal movements, stopping pumping blood into our body. The brain is the main organ affected, because if it does not receive blood (which is accompanied by oxygen) it can have serious complications or even death.

It is important to know why it happens and its consequence, to give importance to the action that we must take. Visually when we see a person who faints, we do not know the reason why it happened or what happens to him. We will identify that it is a heart attack when we place the index and middle fingers next to the trachea and we do not feel the pulse and also stop breathing. Immediately we started with the CPR technique, I will guide them with some images:

1. Place the person face up, kneel on the floor, facing the body of the person.

2. Locate the middle part of the chest, place the heel of one hand on the chest and the other hand place it on top of the first, interlacing the fingers to provide greater strength. Keep your arms straight and do not flex them while applying the technique.
   

   
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3. Press the chest 30 times so that each pressure simulates the functioning of the heart, which is pumping blood to the body. These must be of fast frequency. Remember that the heart beats 60 to 90 times per minute when we are at rest. The pressure that we must exert has to be strong so that it goes down approximately 3 or 4 centimeters.
   

   
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4. Next, provide air through the mouth, tilting the head a little back, covering the nose we proceed to supply it. We will see that the air supply is working when we notice that the abdomen of the person is elevated. We repeat this twice after the 30 compressions.

5. If the person does not respond yet, we continue executing steps 2 through 5 until the medical service arrives.

Let's see now a small graph of the consequence at brain level that is leaving minute to minute a cardiac arrest if we do not act in time:

As the minutes go by, the brain will be more affected. It is advisable to act in the first two minutes, because the brain would have less damage. When the brain damage is greater than 50%, the person may be left with a vegetative life, 75% will have severe complications and will not be a person with normal abilities.

It is very important to know that we should not stop applying CPR until emergencies arrive and the patient is attended by professionals.

I hope you put this technique into practice and you can save lives with your hands. It is not advisable to maintain a healthy diet, exercise or at least walk.

Greetings.