What Exactly Is The Difference Between A Panic Attack And A Heart Attack- You Tell Me!
December 13, 2007 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Working at an urgent care facility, I see a lot of acute heart attacks as well as extreme panic attacks. I was poking around the internet and my old text books this morning looking for definitive differences on the ol’ anxiety attack and MI. I know that some experience such extreme panic type feelings, heart palpitations and shortness of breath, that the only definitive way to tell exactly what is going on is looking for ST changes on an EKG.
So much of what I read really bothered me. “The difference is that panic attacks are not crushing and heart attacks …read more




