The phrase "acute heart attack" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical contexts to describe a sudden and severe heart condition that requires immediate attention.
Example: "The patient was rushed to the hospital after suffering an acute heart attack."
Alternatives: "myocardial infarction" or "severe heart attack."
Dr. Krukenkamp said the recommended treatment for patients having an acute heart attack had been to take an aspirin, which prevents clot formation.
Elisabeth P.,1918 - 2010, died at home in Colorado of an acute heart attack on February 14 , 2010 four days before her 92nd birthday.
It is easy to spot when someone has been hit by a bus, fairly easy to spot the classic signs of a stroke and all ambulances carry machines capable of diagnosing an acute heart attack".
Dr. Juan Ignacio Vergara, head of the medical team that had been treating him, said he died at 2 15 p.m., a week after being hospitalized and undergoing angioplasty and another operation after an acute heart attack.
A recent study indicated that 75 per cent of acute heart attack patients have normal cholesterol concentrations, suggesting that cholesterol levels are not the real problem, Dr Malhotra argued.
Conventional weight-training guidelines have suggested that surgical and heart attack patients avoid weight training for four to six months, but the panel wrote that many patients could perform low-weight activity equivalent to carrying up to 30 pounds, as early as three weeks after an acute heart attack.
In acute heart attacks the area at risk for infarction can be visualized and quantified.
Like many patients who have acute heart attacks, Sun Kim also had long-standing blockages in other arteries.
Several recently published studies have sparked a vigorous debate over how acute heart attacks, the quintessential medical emergency, should be treated.
Dr. Leary also said the commission had worked with hospitals to develop ways of measuring outcomes, beginning with a limited number of areas, like the handling of acute heart attacks.
In the study, 1,572 patients who were admitted to community hospitals with acute heart attacks were randomly given thrombolytic treatment or transferred by ambulance to angioplasty centers up to 100 miles away.
