Under the control of the epidemic, how can patients with myocardial infarction get timely treatment?

Acute myocardial infarction is a sudden blockage of the coronary arteries of the heart and ischemia necrosis of the myocardium, which can easily induce ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.

The treatment of myocardial infarction requires timeliness.

Time is the heart muscle, time is life.

For patients with myocardial infarction who seize the early golden treatment time and open up the blocked blood vessels, there is a good prognosis.

At present, the way to open up blood vessels is one is thrombolysis, the other is vascular intervention, or a combination of the two. The earlier the treatment, the earlier the blood vessels open, the less myocardial necrosis there will be.

If the COVID-19 epidemic is locked down, under the priority of the new crown, resources will either be occupied or it will be difficult to obtain resources because of prevention and control measures.

However, no matter how difficult the epidemic prevention and control is, for now, the new crown is mainly mild, the serious disease is very small, and the emergency resources occupied are actually not much.

Therefore, it is necessary to break through because of the delay in treatment caused by the prevention and control of the epidemic and the staggering of links.

Acute myocardial infarction is a very special case, in recent years, with the establishment of chest pain centers in hospitals at all levels of the country, myocardial infarction has become a special priority disease in the hospital, the most concerned disease in the emergency green channel, and one of the few diseases in the hospital that calculates the quality of treatment in minutes.

From the perspective of government-level policies, even in the context of the prevention and control of the new crown, the treatment of myocardial infarction cannot be discounted. Every hospital with a chest pain center needs to set up buffer wards to deal with patients with myocardial infarction who are uncertain about COVID-19.

Therefore, no new crown prevention and control policy says that in order to prevent and control the epidemic, patients with myocardial infarction can give way.

All the delayed treatment of myocardial infarction on the grounds of epidemic prevention and control is a manifestation of the lack of rational design and inaction of the treatment process in the hospital. The resulting patient losses can be taken to court by the hospital.

This lawsuit, the affected party will definitely win.

Some people may say, Nighthawk, you also work in the hospital, why do you say so?

As doctors, I work in hospitals, but we work for patients, we work to save lives. If you change the entire process of medical treatment through litigation, make it more reasonable, more scientific, more efficient, it is very good!

Maybe one day, Nighthawk himself and his family may also encounter this dilemma because of a heart attack. I don't want things like myocardial infarction being delayed to happen to family and friends again, or to anyone.

If you or your family are in a high-risk area for a suspected myocardial infarction, you can refer to the following three points:

1. When dialing 120, clearly describe the symptoms and raise the possibility of myocardial infarction. If 120 cannot be connected, it is necessary to break through the barrier of the direct person in charge of community control and send the patient to the hospital.

2. Arrive at the hospital emergency department, but where there is a chest pain center, the hospital does not dare not accept the treatment, after receiving the blood draw and electrocardiogram examination, the problem can basically be clear. If thrombolysis is required, thrombolytic injections are required in the emergency room, and interventional surgery is required to go to the interventional room.

3. If there is prevarication and delay, the general duty of the hospital is required to coordinate, and it is clearly stated that the national epidemic prevention policy not only does not have a clause that can delay the treatment of myocardial infarction because of epidemic prevention and control, but repeatedly emphasizes that the treatment of myocardial infarction must not be delayed, and the hospital must have a corresponding response plan.

If there is really a delay of treatment for several hours, it is intolerable for patients with myocardial infarction, and it is recommended to take the legal route and use the law to promote the optimization of the hospital treatment process, so as to establish a better medical service for more people.