Recognizing Heart Attack Symptoms: A Guide from the American Heart Association

These guidelines are based on the recommendations of the American Heart Association.

Instructions

• 1

  Note any crushing pain, pressure or squeezing in the center of your chest that lasts for more than a few minutes.

• 2

  Be alert to pain that spreads to the jaw, neck, shoulder or arms (often the left arm).

• 3

  Note any nausea, sweating, dizziness, or shortness of breath in combination with chest pain.

• 4

  Look for any combination of the symptoms listed above.

• 5

  Keep track of one or more of the above warning signs subsiding, and then returning.