Around 8 million people develop heart attacks, soon after surgery.
Even more shocking is that according to a recent study published in the journal Anesthesiology, 10 percent of them die within 30 days of the surgery. And the reason they’re not diagnosed in time is because they exhibit virtually no symptoms of heart attack.
And this is even if the surgery had nothing to do with cardiovascular health.
The common symptoms of heart attack are chest discomfort, pain in upper body especially jaw, neck and back, shortness of breath and nausea. Anybody who experiences one or more of these symptoms should seek professional help to prevent or deal with their heart attack.
But most times the lack of any symptoms in the patients who have recently undergone surgery puts them at great risk.
In fact, a recent study conducted by Dr. PJ Devereaux and his team, reveals that only 15 percent of patients who developed heart attacks soon after surgery experienced any of the traditional symptoms.
Due to the trauma of surgery, many patients experience a heart attack within 48 hours of undergoing it. Since they take pain medications as a regular treatment process, the actual symptoms of heart attack gets masked.
So what is the solution?
The team came up with a simple and efficient method to diagnose if the patients are at a risk of developing heart attack. This method is called ‘Myocardial Injury after Non-cardiac Surgery’ or MINS. It might sound complicated, but all it involves is a simple blood test.
In the study, they monitored over 15,000 patients above 45 years for the first three days after surgery. A blood test was performed on all the patients and the level of one particular protein called ‘troponin’ was measured. Increased level of troponin is usually found in the blood if the heart has experienced any injury.
Those with increased levels of troponin were then subjected to electrocardiogram assessment to identify the heart attack risk. It was identified that only 15 percent showed the typical symptoms of heart attack.
The final verdict is this: Know the important symptoms of heart attack and be sure to consult a physician even if you experience mild to moderate discomfort especially after surgery.
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About 1980, my husband, Charles, underwent thyroid surgery, While recovering from that surgery, he felt shaky and thought that it was due to going off his pain meds. However, years later, he was asked by a doctor, when he had his heart attack. He said that he did not know that he had one. Later, when he was 71 years of age, he was scheduled to have knee replacement surgery. We took our motor home to a Good Sam rally the weekend before the scheduled surgery, and the night before returning home, he suffered a heart attack and died. I have since felt that he surely would have had a heart attack after the knee surgery, if he had not died before.