Proper updated terms for stroke and heart attack, please?

Question

I wasn't sure if it's still called a CVA and MI.

Answer 1

it still is.... m nt too sure about stroke tho

Answer 2

cardiac arrest for heart attack.

Answer 3

Yeah, you've got them right, respectively CVA (hemorrhagic or non) and MI.

Answer 4

Those will still work nicely.You'll see a lot of more or less specific descriptors, though, these days.

For instance, in those in whom it isn't initially clear whether they're having an MI or unstable angina, there's the term ACS (acute coronary syndrome), and the MI's are often subdivided into STEMI and NSTEMI, depending on whether there are the classic ST elevations on the EKG.

Strokes haven't changed their jargon much over the years. There seems to be a little more literature on bleeds, though, so be prepared to see not just the thrombotic and embolic cerebrovascular accidents in your reading, but a good deal on SAH and ICH, and on later hemorrhagic conversions of initially non-hemorrhagic strokes. This last is especially more common than in years past, what with the widespread use of thrombolytic therapy.

Answer 5

A heart attack, known in medicine as an (acute) myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion (blockage) of a coronary artery following the rupture of a vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids (like cholesterol) and white blood cells (especially macrophages) in the wall of an artery.

Answer 6

I am a paramedic. CVA = cerebral vascular accident (stroke). MI = myocardial infarction (heart attack).