Eli5: How do doctors save people from a heart attack?

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Eli5: How do doctors save people from a heart attack?

In: Biology

Answer 1

They give them medications to prevent any clots from getting worse, treat their pain, and slow their heart rate. They take them to a procedure room where they sedate the patient and then stick a wire with a stent on it and work their way into the artery that is clogged. Then they open up the stent and thus open up the artery, restoring blood flow to the heart.