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Does A Person Survive Heart Attack By Slightly Bending Down?

Posted on Wed, 11 May 2016

Question: If you are having symptoms of a heart attack and are laying down would you get some relief by sitting in a slightly bent forward position?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Muhammad Sareer Khalil (49 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Positional pain in pericarditis

Detailed Answer:
Hello and Welcome

I appreciate your concern

No such positioning either bent or extended as has shown to give relief or benefit in terms of survival in a myocardial infarction / heart attack.

In pericarditis which is the swelling and irritation of the sac-like membrane structure surrounding the heart, the pain is positional i.e bending forward leads to relief while extension or lying straight leads to severe chest pain.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar