For example, many heart attack patients have undergone thrombolysis, a procedure that involves injecting a clot-dissolving agent to restore blood flow in a coronary artery (View an illustration of coronary arteries). This procedure is administered within a few (usually three) hours of a heart attack.
Hon Lik invented the e-cigarette to quit smoking â but now he's a dual user. Hon Lik, inventor of the e-cigarette, uses one of the devices in London on Tuesday. Hon Lik, the inventor of the e-cigarette, had hoped to kick his heavy smoking â the habit that killed his father. But the pharmacist, from Shenyang in north-east China, did not manage to quit. He now uses both â but says he only smokes tobacco because he has to check the flavours in his devices.
Hon Lik worked day and night to realize his dream. In 2004, he finally invented the electronic cigarette. It was a small battery powered device that delivered nicotine liquid solution in a vaporized form, fog, when inhaled air activates an atomizer. It had a red light at the tip that lighted up with each drag. It did not contain the substances commonly found in regular cigarettes, such as, tar and other cancer causing agents. Hon Lik gave one of the first prototypes to his father, who was also a heavy tobacco smoke and dying of lung cancer at that time. His father enjoyed the electronic cigarette and was happy that with the device there would be fewer sons watching their fathers dying of lung cancers.