The British Heart Foundation (BHF) advises that individuals who think they are having a heart attack should do the following:
- Call 999 for an ambulance
- Sit down and stay calm
- Take a 300mg aspirin if you have one within reach
- Wait for the paramedics.
Despite the frightening ordeal, Lavender went on to say that he was “extremely lucky” as he was able to have life-saving surgery almost immediately.
Lavender said: “Within five minutes there were three doctors and a nurse and our paramedic working on me.
“Then I was taken to West Suffolk Hospital and was in the cardiac care unit within half an hour, before being moved to Papworth Hospital in Cambridge for an angioplasty – where a small balloon was inserted to inflate an artery which has become partially blocked and narrowed, and two stents – which are used to hold open arteries.
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