Frequent chest pain? Beware

Communities need to be aware of chest pain or "chest pain" because it is one symptom of the disease in a short time can lead to death, according to health experts from the University of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta Nahar Taufiq.

"Therefore, chest pain needs to be addressed seriously. Cause of chest pain usually comes from the heart, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and pulmonary and respiratory conditions," he said in Yogyakarta on Saturday.

In the discussion on "Continuing Education", he said, was a complaint of chest pain that is often found in the acute care unit or emergency department. Nearly 40 percent of people in Indonesia have chest pain.

"In general, treatment of chest pain in patients who come to emergency rooms remain the same in accordance with the standards, but within 10 minutes of chest pain sufferers had to be divided into four categories," he said.

He said that people with chest pain can be classified into four categories, namely category P (Priority Risk), category A (Advance Risk), a category I (Intermediate Risk), and category N (Negative / Low Risk).

"Each category has a groove advanced handling of each," said the lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FKIK) Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta (UMY).

According to him, patients with category P is a patient with symptoms of typical angina chest pain accompanied by one of the criteria of myocardial infarction in the ECG recording.
"Category A chest pain occurs more than 20 minutes and acute myocardial infarction within the last four weeks and no hemodynamic disturbances," he said.

He said, the category I is probable mekatian or myocardial infarction within 30 days of 4-8 percent and have symptoms such as group A.

"Category N the possibility of death or myocardial infarction within 30 days is less than two percent by sublingual nitrate administration of aspirin," said Nahar.