Signs, symptoms and what to do

Each year, more than 800,000 people in the United States experience a heart attack, with the majority caused by coronary artery disease (CAD). For more information, check out this CDC site: (https://www.cdc.gov/heart-disease/data-research/facts-stats/index.ht

Someone having a heart attack may:  

• Chest pain or discomfort. Most heart attack involve discomfort in the center or left side of the chest that last for more than a few minutes or that goes away and come back.  The discomfort can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing fullness or pain.  

• be breathless or gasping for breath.

• be sweating profusely.

• experience pain similar to indigestion.

• collapse without warning.

• complain of dizziness.

• have pale skin and their lips may have a blue tinge.

• have a rapid, weak or irregular pulse.

• have a feeling of impending doom.

What to do:  

1.  Call 911 for emergency help straight away and tell them you think someone is having a heart attack. Start the CPR process.  

2.  Help move the individual into a comfortable position.  The best position is on the floor, with their knees bent and their head and shoulders supported.

• You could place cushion behind them or under their knees.

3. Keep monitoring the individual's level of response until emergency help.

source:

https://www.heart.org/en/about-us/heart-attack-and-stroke-symptoms