Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Page A-5
Speed is key when it comes to chest pain
Annette McGee Rasch
IVN Senior Contributing Writer
Illinois Valley Fire District (IVFD)
Chief Dennis Hoke was out of town when he
received a phone call from a local business
owner in the Valley who said: “I think I’m
having a heart attack, will you come over?”
Hoke immediately called 911 dispatch
and sent in his crews. A medical helicopter was
called in and just as Hoke’s friend was being
wheeled into the hospital, he went into cardiac
arrest. He was revived at the scene and then
put into a drug-induced coma to increase his
chances for survival.
“The first lesson here is not to call your
friends, family or neighbors,” said Hoke, who
is also a paramedic. “If you’re having heart
symptoms, call 911 immediately. The faster we
can do an intervention, the less damage is done
to the heart. Once you’ve had that heart attack
there is going to be damage, so the key is to try
and minimize it and stop that damage as soon
as possible. You have to get to a hospital right
away that can do a cardiac intervention - and
some of those patients have to get to Medford.
Minutes count. Literally, time is heart muscle.
You’re losing heart muscle during a heart
attack - and that’s going to cause the long term
damage.”
Hoke explained how this man had been
under a lot of stress and had experienced left
arm pain for about two weeks. Hoke had
talked to him at a recent community meeting,
inquiring about his health, because “he didn’t
look right. But he denied any issues at that
time.”
“That’s the second lesson here. Don’t
ignore symptoms,” Hoke said. “Get checked
out. The symptoms of cardiac problems can
be so subtle that people just ignore them, and
what I’ve learned is that denial is one of the
experience shortness of breath, sweating,
He also said Bill Dodson, Bob Knott, Skip
biggest contributors of untimely death from
Bernard, Tony Paulson, Larry Hammersmith,
belching or indigestion.
heart trouble.”
Hunt also agreed with Hoke about
Jeff Gavlik, Joe Latva, Tom McCauley, and
According to Hoke, men and women
not waiting to be seen by a doctor when
Kris Sherman all pitched in to get the job done.
can present symptoms quite differently. With
experiencing any of these symptoms. “Early
“Bob Bell and Ron Humphfres rallied
men, a heart attack can feel like an elephant
intervention is so important. If you catch it
a number of citizens from the Illinois Valley
is sitting on their chest, and there might
soon enough, the damages from heart attacks
to make this a reality,” Hoke said. “This
be pain in the left arm and the jaw. Those
may be reversible,” she said.
will greatly improve landing zone safety for
are the classic symptoms. However Hoke
Aiding the effort to get Valley residents
the aircraft, emergency personnel and the
said some men - and women - can present
patients. It was a cool project with a bunch
timely medical treatment, a new helipad was
symptoms differently: it could be long bout of
installed at the Selma Fire Station. Hoke said
of community members - many not related to
indigestion, or pain in the right arm.
Mercy Flights bankrolled the project and Dave the fire district - who just came together to get
“Women can have the same symptoms
Anderson did the excavation work beforehand. something good done for the community.”
as men, but oftentimes,
they might have flu-like
symptoms, like body
aches, nausea, general
malaise, lack of energy,
a ‘blah’ feeling,” said
Siskiyou Community
Health Center’s family
practitioner Dr. Hunt.
“If you possess the risk
factors and medical
history that could
indicate heart trouble,
then you shouldn’t
wait to be seen by a
doctor, whereas a young
women in her 20s could
wait a few days and see
if it passes.”
The medical
professionals say
women might
also experience
lightheadedness,
(Photo by the IVFD Media Dept)
extreme fatigue, fainting,
dizziness, or pressure in Volunteers work laying concrete Wednesday, March 30, at the Selma fire station. The section of the
the upper back; and both concrete poured is one section of a landing pad for Mercy Flights helicopter that many heart attack
men and women might
victims will use.
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