During a Heart Attack, What is the Victim's Blood Pressure?

Question

I'm sure is is different in almost every case, but can a person with normal blood pressure be having a heart attack. When a person is in the hospital ER for Heart Attack, do they normally have a low or high BP? Does a "stress induced" heart attack normally occur in people with normal BP? O know the symptoms, but nothing mentions BP

Answer 1

Excellent question, one i haven't thought about, but i would have to say that BP on a AMI (Acute Myocardial Infraction) will depend on 2 variables, Type of AMI and Extent of the AMI

Type: Let's imagine that our patient has a heart attack 'cause he has a block (compressing tumor) that won't let venous blood come back, then obviously his BP will be low, 'cause there isn't blood running around.

Extent: Let's imagine another patient in which he used to have HBP but he has a massive AMI (40%) since there is allot of dead tissue obviously his heart will not beat the way it used to so he will have Low to Normal BP out of heard dysfunction

There is a 3rd situation called the Bezhold-Harrish reflex in which the patient has a Normal BP and Low-Normal Heart rate, but that isn't very common

Answer 2

Usually the blood pressure increases. It is good to purchase a digital blood pressure cuff and take it daily to know what your normal blood pressure is. I was having chest pain, and decided to dial 911. Fire Rescue and paramedics took my blood pressure and said it was OK. It was 135/80. It wasnt OK because that is extremely high in comparing to my everyday normal. Was taken to hospital....and yest I had a heart attack. Luckily mine was a coronary artery spasm with little damage to the heart and it repaired itself. No blocked arteries.

Answer 3

usually the blood pressure is high because when a person is having a heart attack, the heart is not pumping normally, and the cardiac output is abnormal -- therefore this increases the pressure.