Abstract
Heart attack or acute myocardial infarction (IMA) is a state of heart muscle necrosis due to an imbalance between oxygen demand and supply that occurs suddenly. IMA or heart attack is the most common cause of death in developed countries. Community service activities are carried out to increase knowledge of the elderly about Acute Myocardial Infarction or heart attacks which are expected to directly improve the health and quality of life of the elderly in Wonokromo Village. The time of the activity is carried out in a period of 1 week. The method used is to use the lecture method then proceed with an examination of blood pressure in the elderly. The level of knowledge of respondents can be known by doing a pre-test in the form of a questionnaire that will be filled by respondents to determine the level of knowledge of respondents regarding heart attacks. Pretest is done before counseling is given. Meanwhile, to know the increase in respondents' knowledge about the material can be known by comparing it with the results of the post test that has been filled out by the respondent after counseling. The outputs from the community service activities are reports that have been published in journals and increased respondents' understanding.
Highlights
Heart attack or acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a condition of necrosis of the heart muscle due to an imbalance between oxygen demand and supply that occurs suddenly
The baseline (30 days) mortality rate at AMI is 30% with more than half of the deaths occurring before the patient reaches hospital
Myocardial infarction begins with the process of reduced oxygen supply of the heart which is caused by various things including atherosclerotic, arterial thrombi, spasm, coronary embolism, congenital anomalies, which are disorders of the coronary arteries
Summary
Heart attack or acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a condition of necrosis of the heart muscle due to an imbalance between oxygen demand and supply that occurs suddenly. The epidemiological data at the national level, including the report on mortality studies in 2001 by the National Health Survey, shows that the main cause of death in Indonesia is diseases of the circulatory system (heart and blood vessels) around 26.39% (Jamal, 2004). Myocardial infarction begins with the process of reduced oxygen supply (ischemia) of the heart which is caused by various things including atherosclerotic, arterial thrombi, spasm, coronary embolism, congenital anomalies, which are disorders of the coronary arteries.
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