1. Introduction
THIS IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE IT HAPPENS TO YOU.
YOU WON’T FEEL MUCH LIKE READING IT AFTERWARDS.
ARE YOU HAVING A HEART ATTACK OR A STROKE?
Both need urgent hospital attention
as your life and its quality is threatened. In both cases ring 000
for
an ambulance. The paramedics
will stabilize your condition then race you to hospital faster than
anyone else can. Don’t try to diagnose your own condition, as
this needs trained professionals and sophisticated equipment. The following
information is to help you and your family understand what is happening
to you.
Strokes and Heart Attacks require very different treatment’ so
its critical to identify which one you are having. Also with two fundamentally
different types of strokes their treatment is also very different.
