time is of the essence when there is a blockage and all cardiologists know that, and all the ones I've ever dealt with have told me they’d much rather do a angiogram that was a false alarm the not do one and have another dead patient on their handsWhen I had progressively worse chest pains I had my son take me to the ER
I walked quickly past the bank of windows with triage people yelling at me "Hey stop you have to sign in and give us $100" I yelled back my son will take care of that.
I went right through the doors to the ER and said I'm having a heart attack.
Before I knew it I was put on a gurney and given anesthesia and woke up a while later with a stent.
My anterior artery was completely blocked.
The doctor on call was the head of my Cardiology doctor's office. The best they had.
[I changed over to him as my cardiologist because I was seeing probably one of the worst Dr's in the practice.]
Fortunately I had no heart damage.
My older brother had a stent some time before this and my younger brother had one a few years later.
My father had had a quadruple by pass and my maternal grandfather had heart procedure also.
So I think it is somewhat hereditary but maybe mostly eating habits.
“I went right through the doors to the ER and said I’m having a heart attack.”
i did the same thing at the ER metal detector at the front door, yelling that i was having a heart attack, but stopped at the front desk to give them my id. while i was doing that, the rent-a-cop bugged me asking if i had any weapons, so i handed him a tiny pocketknife i had, and told him that i damn well wanted it back if i survived ...