Signs of a Heart Attack

Video Transcript

"Classic signs of a heart attack. Patients that have a heart attack often complain of chest pain, which they described as crushing pressure, or heaviness in the chest, often associated with an elephant sitting on their chest, or being kicked in the chest by a mule. This pain can be very sharp or at sometimes dull. The pain will also radiate; most often to the left arm and the left jaw, but can also include pain in the right arm, right shoulder, or the back. Nausea and vomiting is common, as is shortness of breath. Your skin may become cool, pale, and sweaty, and dizziness or blurred vision can occur. In people, especially women that are diabetics or other non-classic patients that have diabetes, very high pain tolerance, or a former history of heart attacks may not have these classic signs, and symptoms can be a lot more dull and vague, but most often, do include the chest pain and one of the other symptoms, like the nausea and vomiting, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, and blurriness of the vision, as we just described."