Often when there is a Patient of Myocardial Ischaemia, the first thing we start is oxygen thinking if we give 100% Oxygen it will be going to blood and from there will be taken to cardiac muscles having less oxygen leading to such ischaemia or necrosis. But oxygen therapy does not prevent the development of heart failure. Neither does it reduce the long-term risk of dying for patients with suspected heart attack. This has been proven for the first time by researchers at Karolinska Institutet as a result of a major Swedish study.
The study has been presented at the European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) cardiology congress in Munich and published at the same time in the journal Circulation . The researchers expect their results to have a global impact on recommended healthcare for treating heart attacks. Oxygen has been used to treat patients suffering a heart attack for more than a…
