How is a Heart Attack Treated?

By Michelle Kruse

My dad spent the day in the cath lab today. A failed stress test sent him there. Fortunately, his angiogram showed that his blockage was in a very small vein and that it could be treated with medication only. He had triple bypass surgery twelve years ago and angioplasty several years before that. I was just 14 years old when we got the middle of the night telephone call that he was headed home from a business trip via medical helicopter suffering from a heart attack.

I’m certainly no medical expert, but thanks to my job, I do know a bit about heart health/procedures/treatment, etc. I fielded a lot of questions from my family and friends about what my dad was having done today. What a help this video was.

It’s comforting to know exactly what’s going on behind the closed doors to the cardiac catheterization lab. I wish I would have had something like this to watch 20 years ago.

Sometimes people ask me why I care so much about diet and how I can love exercise so much. My dad is part of my motivation. He was just 42 when he had his first heart attack. I want to do all that I can to make sure that doesn’t happen to me.

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