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What are the signs that someone might be having a heart attack, stroke, seizure, or is fainting. what is the appropriate response?

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Dr. Charles Davant answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Basic life support: Make sure their airway is clear, lie them flat and yell for help. Call 911. If they can talk and have a pulse, hold their hand until the paramedics get there. If they don't have a pulse, start chest compressions. Heart attack patients usually have chest pain, strokes are usually painless (maybe terrible headache) but some part of the body isn't working. Seizures are usually jerking. But you can't.

Answered 9/28/2016

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Specializes in surgery

Chest and brain: Heart attack is damage to heart stroke is damage to brain some heart attack patients may be from emboli, or have low cardiac output and also damage brain with hypoxia both have some common risk! smoking obesity high blood pressure diabetes hyperlipemia prevention is best acute care is an emergency. Call 911, take an Aspirin and go to er.

Answered 6/24/2014

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