Immediate medical intervention can save lives of heart attack patients: Doctors
Patna: Any pain in the heart, discomfort, or other heart-related issues should be ignored and immediately reported to doctors. In the case of a heart attack, instead of planning for a higher medical institute at a distance, one should opt for the nearest health facility to get immediate medical intervention, which can prevent or limit further damage to the heart, and save one's life.
Several such instructions were given by cardiologists from across the capital in a press conference held on Friday, ahead of the 3rd Bihar Interventional Council-2025 to be organised by the Bihar chapter of the Cardiological Society of India.
Taking cues from their past experience, Dr Ashish Kumar Jha and Dr Vineet Kumar said 70% to 80% of heart patients come to the hospital late after 12 to 24 hours, and by then, the damage is done.
Doctors advised that even symptoms like vomiting and discomfort should not be ignored. "Heart attack needs immediate treatment. Rush to the nearest hospital," said one of the review committee members, Dr Vipin Kumar.
Cardiologists further said that age was no longer a factor in heart-related issues, as people in their 30s were also coming with such problems. They cited several factors, like food habits, lifestyle, stress, smoking, hypertension, and diabetes, as the reasons for the increase in heart-related issues.
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Apart from medical advice, doctors also shed light on the two-day annual conference, which will start on Saturday, and will focus on intervention to treat heart ailments.
The chairman of the organising committee, Dr Arvind Kumar, said Bihar has witnessed a huge development in the field of medical intervention, which is a stage between medicine and operation. Topics related to pacing and heart failure therapy, structural and paediatric intervention, peripheral intervention, imaging and physiology, and coronary plaque modification will be discussed.
The conference will have experts from across the globe and different parts of the country, like Dr Ryuzo Hayashi and Dr Haruki Miyazawa from Japan; Dr C Narasimhan from Hyderabad; Dr D S Chaddha and Dr BC Srinivas from Bangalore; Dr Vijay Trehan, Dr Pravin Chandra, Dr RD Yadave, Dr Rakesh Yadav, and Dr Viveka Kumar from Delhi; and Dr N Pratap Kumar from Kollam.
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