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.
First patented by a gentleman named Herbert A. Gilbert in 1963, the first e-cigarette was described as a non-tobacco cigarette wherein a nicotine solution was heated up to produce steam. This was the first recorded instance of the idea of e-cigarettes; however, the product was never manufactured. Fast-forward to 1979, when Dr. Norman Jacobson invented an early form of the e-cigarette. Called the Favor cigarette, it was a device that gave users a way to inhale nicotine without the smoke. The decades that followed showed no improvements in e-cig technology, and Dr. Jacobsonâs invention was virtually ignored.