Treatment for acute coronary syndrome depends on extent of blockage of artery and damage to heart. Treatment normally starts with medications to relieve chest pain. If medications alone cannot assure normal blood flow to your heart, doctors advise surgery.
Treatments and Medications for Acute Coronary Syndrome
New York (USA), June 21, 2013
Treatments Options for Acute Coronary Syndrome
Treatment for acute coronary syndrome depends on extent of blockage of artery and damage to heart. Treatment normally starts with medications to relieve chest pain.
Medications for Acute Coronary Syndrome
Aspirin: Doctors and emergency staff give you aspirin to chew as soon as acute coronary syndrome is suspected. Aspirin is quickly absorbed into your blood stream. Your doctor advises you a daily dosage of aspirin.
Thrombolytics: Clots in arteries restrict blood flow to heart. These medicines clear away such blockages and dissolve clots promoting easy flow of blood to heart.
ACE Inhibitors or ARBs: If tests indicate you have had a moderate to severe heart attack, doctors prescribe angiotensin-converting enzyme or ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers or ARBs. These lower blood pressure levels and allow easier flow of blood to heart.
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs or Statins: These drugs lower cholesterol levels in blood thereby dissuading possibility of plaque deposits.
Beta Blockers: These drugs help lower blood pressure, slow down your heart rate, and relax your heart muscles. Blood flow through arteries improves and chest pain abates. You overcome most symptoms of ACS and possibility of heart attack lessens. If acute coronary syndrome is due to cocaine use, beta blockers should not be used and benzodiazepines should be administered early.
Nitroglycerin: This medicine widens narrowed arteries albeit temporarily. It also eases chest pain. Blood flow through arteries to heart improves. You feel much better.
Calcium Channel Blockers: If acute coronary syndrome symptoms persist even after you have had beta blockers and nitroglycerin, doctors advise calcium channel blockers to relax heart muscles and improve blood flow to heart.
Clopidogrel: This prevents possibility of blood clots. However, it could induce heavy bleeding in case of surgery.
Surgery
If medications alone cannot assure normal blood flow to your heart, doctors advise surgery.
Coronary Bypass Surgery: This involves creation of an alternative path for blood to flow to your heart.
Angioplasty and Stenting: A long thin tube or catheter is inserted into blocked artery. A wire with a deflated balloon is then passed through the catheter. When balloon is inflated, it presses deposits against artery wall. Blockages clear off. A stent is placed within artery to widen it.
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