London, United Kingdom, 12th July: Whether a patient is likely to get a cardiac arrest can be diagnosed by the doctor easily, with a simple hand-held device that can test your blood and your likeliness to be a victim of heart attack. Even if you have already had a cardiac arrest, this blood test will help the doctors to provide the best treatments to you at the earliest, faster than what it would take without the test.

The reason a heart attack occurs is when, any of the coronary arteries of the heart is blocked by a blood clot. The heart continues to pump blood. But, since the muscles of the heart starve for blood that is rich in oxygen and since that blood fails to reach the heart due to the blockages, the attack occurs. Without immediate treatment, this could cause permanent damage to the heart.

When a patient of heart attack is admitted to the hospital or when patients, who have a chest pain, are admitted to the hospital, they are given a blood test. This blood test checks the amount of Troponin protein in the blood that is excreted after a heart attack has occurred. Along with this test, an echocardiogram is also done on the patient.

However, it takes about 12 hours for Troponin to spread in the blood and hence, the results of the blood test takes time to come. In fact, the doctors will have to repeat the test to get the results. But, nowadays, a new [b]private blood test[/b] method has been introduced and gained much popularity. A device named Philips Minicare I-20 that Dutch makers brought to the market, can test the blood in 10 minutes, just by taking a single drop of blood from the fingertip of the patient.

“The utility of this device is that it can diagnose the patients faster and help them get the actual treatment or even discharge faster”, says a renowned Cardiologist practicing in Medex Clinic in London. About 1.1 million patients with chest pain are admitted to the hospital every year. But, only 16% of them actually go through a cardiac arrest. The rest of the patients might have angina or other such medical condition, inducing chest pain.

Still, they occupy beds and a great deal of their money and resources are wasted in diagnosing, if they have had a heart attack or not. With this device, the unnecessary crowding at the emergency wards of the hospital would be decreased. Those, who are diagnosed with a heart attack, will be diagnosed faster and given treatment faster. Though the rapidity of the test results are not as important as the accuracy of the test results, with this private blood test clinic in London, it will be easier to diagnose, if a patient has had a heart attack or not.

The Medical Express Clinic offers this blood test as they have this device that costs about £8,000. It is only after thorough research across 7 hospitals throughout Europe, including Britain that this device has been brought to public use. It is a huge step for this clinic to start using this device and offering this test to their patients. To know more visit our website: https://www.medicalexpressclinic.co.uk/blood-test