Cardiac Hospitals: When to call my Cardiologist?

Cardiac issues or heart issues can pose serious threats. Hence, a hospital’s emergency room is always bustling with patients facing sudden chest pain. However, almost 85% cases go home after finding no heart issues. Well-being of heart is very important for a healthy life. Any slight pain in chest can definitely give us a chill down our spine. But always running to a hospital’s ER room is not the solution. One needs to learn about the alarming signals. All the chest pain are not related to heart and no pain/symptom do not ward off the threat of a heart problem. Then how will you decide whether or not you need a heart specialist?

A cardiologist always insist on two things; one regular health check-ups and second a healthy lifestyle. While we some of us do follow the first advice, many of us ignore or choose to ignore the later. A sedentary or laid back lifestyle is a big threat to the inside of our body. A laidback lifestyle where a person has to sit maximum time of the day (which restricts physical activities) can lead to various health problems including heart issues.

What can affect my heart?

Though, a healthy person who has been following a healthy lifestyle all along is also at risk of heart issues but there are some habits which makes a person more vulnerable towards an ailing heart, like:

·         Unhealthy diet

·         Lack of physical activities

·         Obesity which is the main cause of heart problem due to accumulation of fat and cholesterol putting a lot of stress on heart

·         Smoking

·         Tobacco use

·         Alcohol addiction

When to go to a cardiac hospital?

Visit your cardiologist in case you suffer from following symptoms:

·         Feeling extreme fatigue for many days

·         Loss of appetite or nausea

·         Cough which gets worse even after medication

·         Fast pulse rate

·         Irregular heartbeat

·         Chest pain moving towards your hand and jaw

·         Trouble in sleeping

·         Less urination

·         Dizziness

How can Heart problem is diagnosed?

After learning about your symptoms, a cardiologist may go for certain test to ascertain your heart condition, the different scans and tests may include:

·         Echocardiogram: The test monitors flow of blood through the heart.

·         Electrocardiogram (ECG): Monitors the rhythm of heart.

·        Cardiac Computer Tomography (CT) Scan: It is done through X-ray and captures cross-sectional views of heart.

·        Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): an image of hear tis extracted through powerful magnets and radio waves.

Holter Monitoring: It is a portable device which is used to monitor continuous ECG of a patient. The device is worn for 24 to 72 hours.