{"id":92,"date":"2009-01-17T05:25:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-01-17T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:25:22","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-january-16-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 16, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Oxygen Deprived Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most common symptom of a heart attack is, of course, chest pain: a tightness, pressure or squeezing, often described as an &#8220;elephant on my chest&#8221;, which may be lasting or come and go. This is the heart muscle struggling and dying from oxygen deprivation. Pain can radiate to the jaw, throat, back, belly and arms. Other signs and symptoms include shortness of breath, nausea and cold sweats.<\/p>\n<p>Most victims delay before seeking assistance, waiting an average of 2 to 6 hours. Women are the worst, probably because they are more likely to experience less well-known symptoms, such as breathlessness, back or jaw pain, or nausea, says JoAnn Manson, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School. Survivors say they just didn&#8217;t want to make a fuss; that it felt more like indigestion, tiredness or muscle cramps than a heart attack. Then again, some victims are just in denial.<\/p>\n<p>Delay costs lives. Most people who die from heart attacks do so before reaching hospital. The actual cause of death is often heart arrhythmia &#8211; disruption of the normal heart rhythm, in other words. Even small heart attacks can play havoc with the electrical impulses that control heart muscle contraction, effectively stopping it. In about 10 seconds the person loses consciousness, and minutes later they are dead. Patients who make it to hospital quickly fare much better; in the UK and US more than 85 per cent of heart attack patients admitted to hospital survive to 30 days. Hospitals can deploy defibrillators to shock the heart back into rhythm, and clot-busting drugs and artery-clearing surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19626252.800 \">New Scientist<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously donated by: Aeron<\/p>\n<p>My mother died of a heart attack that she suffered in the end-stages of terminal cancer back in 2003 and she exhibited the typical &#8220;female&#8221; symptoms.  She vomited right before she passed away, thinking that she was just nauseous, but obviously in the midst of a heart attack at that time.  Makes me sad just thinking about it&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Oxygen Deprived Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The most common symptom of a heart attack is, of course, chest pain: a tightness, pressure or squeezing, often described as an &#8220;elephant on my chest&#8221;, which may be lasting or come and go. This is the heart muscle struggling and dying from oxygen deprivation. Pain can radiate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}