Coronary Heart Disease: Number One Worldwide Cause of Death – First Aid and Treatment

• Coronary Heart Disease is the number one cause of death worldwide (WHO, 2015)
• In the world every 3 seconds someone dies from coronary heart disease
• 1 in 10 people in Indonesia die from coronary heart disease (SRS, Balitbangkes, 2014)
• The total service costs spent on heart disease amounted to 7.4 trillion, and was the largest of all types of disease in 2016 (BPJS, 2017)

What should be done if someone has a heart attack? First aid for a heart attack is:

• Make an emergency call to number 119 or the nearest hospital to request help from medical personnel and an ambulance;
• basic life support assistance by medical personnel (cardiac and pulmonary resuscitation);
• Perform defibrillation using Automatic External Defibrilation (AED);
• Immediately take the sufferer to the Emergency Room (IGD) at the nearest hospital,
• perform advanced life support and hospital treatment.

Some things that need to be considered if the heart attack sufferer is conscious are:

• Lay the patient in a half-sitting position and immediately take him to the nearest Emergency Room (IGD);
• prevent patients from various activities such as: talking a lot, coughing and straining;
• immediately take the sufferer to the emergency room at the nearest hospital.

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2023-12-18 14:08:41
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