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Do you have to go to the hospital for a heart attack?

I am a 44 year old male. I want to know it you have to go to the hospital for a heart attack?

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Unless dying at home is the patient's preference, absolutely they need to go to the hospital. Every minute counts when it comes to heart attacks and the days following. No treatment is always an option for every malady, but not if they expect a good outcome. The blood supply has been cut off to a part of the heart muscle in a heart attack. It will die unless something is done to return blood to that muscle. Dead heart muscle is weaken and ruptures or triggers fatal heart rhythms. Either this happens soon after the event or after it has scarred.
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