When heart attack symptoms strike, call for help instead.

Quick quiz: What’s the first thing you should do if you experience pressure or pain in the chest, shortness of breath or other classic signs of heart attack?

Answer: Call 911 for emergency help. If you got that right, you’re more likely to get care quickly and to survive. If you continued, “Then take an aspirin,” you’re not alone. Three years ago, Heart Advisor suggested calling 911 first, and then chewing and swallowing an aspirin tablet to help dissolve a clot in a coronary artery. …

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