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- Title
Pre-hospital attitudes adopted by patients faced with the symptoms of acute myocardial infarction.
- Authors
Gouveia, Viviane de Araújo; Victor, Edgar Guimarães; de Lima, Sandro Gonçalves
- Abstract
This case series aimed to evaluate the behavior adopted by patients during the pre-hospital phase of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). A total of 115 AMI sufferers with ST-segment elevation were evaluated. The chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were applied. The individuals that did not associate the symptoms with cardiovascular disease most often attributed them to the following sources: gastrointestinal (38%), musculoskeletal (29.7%), food and/or medication poisoning (8.5%) and arising from the respiratory apparatus (6.3%). The proportion of major outcomes and of patients that arrived in the emergency department after 12 hours was higher among women, individuals with monthly income of up to one minimum wage, those who used analgesics and did not associate the symptoms with cardiovascular disease. It was found that individuals in unfavorable socioeconomic conditions, who interpreted the symptoms incorrectly, arrived later at the emergency department and had worse intra-hospital outcomes.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MYOCARDIAL infarction; CHI-squared test; EMERGENCY medical services; FISHER exact test; HEALTH attitudes; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; PATIENTS' attitudes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2011, Vol 19, Issue 5, p1080
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-11692011000500004