Purpose and background

Major heart attack is due to sudden clotting of blood vessels supplying the heart. Once the blood flow is suddenly blocked, heart muscle starts to undergo damage within minutes. The main stay in treatment is immediate opening of the heart blood vessel with either clot busting drug or with stenting. For most of the Indian patients, timely administration of clot busting drug remains the most important treatment.

You unfortunately are diagnosed with a major heart attack and are likely to benefit from immediate medicine to dissolve the clot. We will note down all the necessary information at admission and also record relevant information at each follow up visit. No additional cost is involved because of your participation in the study.

Procedure

At the initial enrollment, an ECG that is taken to diagnose a major heart attack will be sent to a cardiology specialist through a mobile phone app.

Once the specialist confirms a major attack, you will be given the medicine for dissolving the clot FREE OF COST.

Monitoring for complications:

The study does not change the routine management of patients. The clot busting drugs are associated with serious bleeding episodes. NO NEW or EXPERMENTAL DRUG is given in the study. The drug that is given is the standard of care in modern management of major heart attacks. No additional complications are expected out of this study. Still all the major complications during the study will be managed as per local hospital protocol.