 Hello, I am Dr. Nagash Rinvas, Consultant Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Manipal Hospital Whitefield. Heart attack is a very common medical emergency, which we are seeing nowadays. It affects both males and females with equal proportions. Usually when the heart attack happens, whenever the heart is applied to the heart, called the coronary artery, they get blocked suddenly. When the coronary artery gets blocked suddenly, we will have a sudden severe chest pain and this chest pain is located in the center of the chest and it spreads to the arms. So, when somebody is experiencing this kind of discomfort, then we need to be immediately shifted to the hospital, which is having a primary angioplasty capacity and the emergency department, we will identify this heart attack with the help of an ECG and once the ECG shows some ST segment elevations, these people should be immediately transferred to the cath lab, wherein we do an angiogram, identify where exactly the block is located, then pass a wire across the artery and inflate a balloon there and establish the flow quickly and this establishment should be done as early as possible, that is less than 120 minutes after the patient coming to the hospital. So, once the artery is opened and the flow is established, we will try to maintain that flow by putting in what is a small metallic piece called as a stand and after inserting the stand, the patient will be shifted to the ICU and then within 24 to 48 hours and there are no further complications, he will be discharged home. The heart function completely requires within 2 to 4 weeks.