Need your prayers and encouragement...and MEDICAL ADVICES IF YOU HAVE..?

First of all, the albuterol is not your fault, and he's not allergic. A side effect of albuterol is increased heart rate. Obviously the higher your heart rate, the harder your heart is having to work. While most people's hearts can handle this stress just fine, his can't because he has a heart condition. That is not your fault. And how are you buying this over the counter? It has to be prescribed by a doctor. Thereby making it the doctor's fault for prescribing it to him if he knows he has a heart condition. How are you to know these things? And you CAN have a heart attack without it killing you. In the medical field we use a phrase that goes "Time is muscle"...A heart attack is caused by a complete blockage of blood flow to an area of the heart muscle. The chance of survival depends on several things such as how long you wait to go to the hospital, and how much of the heart has been damaged. It is true that some people just drop dead from heart attacks, but that is not all that common. You have to have a SERIOUS blockage for that to happen. The fact that your boyfriend went all night before going to the ER was a mistake. Especially knowing that he has a heart condition. But what's done is done, and all he can do now is look at the options in front of him. I don't know what the doctor has discussed with you, but most times with severe heart attacks, and CABG is done (coronary artery bypass graft) in which they reroute the coronary arteries so the blood can flow around the blockage.He is also a high risk for heart surgery considering he has asthma. Being put under general anesthesia suppresses your natural drive to breathe, and when you come out of surgery the anesthesia is expelled through the lungs. For someone with a chronic lung condition like asthma, this can make it hard for them to be weaned off the ventilator. These are all things that need to be discussed with his doctor.