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When Can A Person Get Discharged After Suffering From Heart Attack?

One of my friends mom sufferred a hrat pain not sure it was a pain or heart attack but her parents said that mom got a level 3 heart attack, i just wnat to know is there a way that when a person suffers heart attack even a slightest of one can that person be discharged within 2 - 3days and can that person travel in a car after 1 day of discharge
Mon, 29 Jun 2015
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Hello. Thank you for your question and welcome to HCM. I understand your concern.

Heart attack is a condition where a part of the heart muscle is permanently damaged, caused by a total closure of a coronary artery. This process of heart muscle "death" begins 20-30 minutes after the onset of pain and completes its total process in up to 6 weeks, when the heart muscle is replaced with scar tissue. However, post-myocardial infarction life-threatening complications (ventricular arrhythmias, rupture of ventricular septum or free wall etc.) are seen between day 1 and day 11 after MI. My opinion is that the patient should remain hospitalized and carefully monitored during this period.

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When Can A Person Get Discharged After Suffering From Heart Attack?

Hello. Thank you for your question and welcome to HCM. I understand your concern. Heart attack is a condition where a part of the heart muscle is permanently damaged, caused by a total closure of a coronary artery. This process of heart muscle death begins 20-30 minutes after the onset of pain and completes its total process in up to 6 weeks, when the heart muscle is replaced with scar tissue. However, post-myocardial infarction life-threatening complications (ventricular arrhythmias, rupture of ventricular septum or free wall etc.) are seen between day 1 and day 11 after MI. My opinion is that the patient should remain hospitalized and carefully monitored during this period. I hope I was helpful with the answer. Good luck!