I often hear stories of a guy who has a heart attack and come to find out that 95% of a major blood vessel to the heart was clogged.
How is this not picked up earlier during normal exams? Why isn’t it?
Can’t they do radiation shots to see where the blood flows or whatever?
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I’m a nurse and I have worked in both the cath lab and the coronary care unit looking after the patients before and after.
One of the reasons that have not been mentioned here is availability. We have so many patients either having a time urgent heart attack (stemi,) a non urgent heart attack (non stemi) or chest pain that is suspicious that Cath labs are booked out. Heck COVID did not even slow down Cath labs.
We just don’t have the resources to blindly screen every one, so we limit to either heart attacks, and people with multiple risk factors that we feel is highly likely to have blockages.
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