Sudden cardiac arrest is frightening. But it's a little less scary if you know that it's really not that sudden. A new study found that about half of cardiac arrest patients had telltale warning signs for a month beforehand. But most people ignored them. Only one in five actually reached...
A heart attack is when the supply of blood to the heart is suddenly cut off, usually by a blood clot. These blockages can prevent oxygen reaching the heart and cause damage and death to muscle tissue. Heart attacks are the leading cause of cardiac arrest worldwide. ...
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What Are the Symptoms and Signs of Heart Disease? The most devastating sign of coronary heart disease is abrupt, unexpected cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest commonly occurs in people who have had previous heart attacks, but it may occur as the first symptom of heart disease. Most people exhibit ...
It leads to the rupture or splitting of heart valves, walls, or muscles. Cardiac Arrest Sudden cardiac arrest is a heart attack complication that occurs without warning. The heart may stop due to the electrical disturbances in the cardiac system. If not treated immediately, cardiac arrest can ...
What Are the Symptoms and Signs of Heart Disease? The most devastating sign of coronary heart disease is abrupt, unexpected cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest commonly occurs in people who have had previous heart attacks, but it may occur as the first symptom of heart disease. Most people...
"The prognosis for sudden cardiac arrest is really dismal," said CBS News medical contributor Dr. Tara Narula, a cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. "It strikes people in the prime of their life, around the age of 65. And even when they recover, many are left with neurologi...
Sudden cardiac arrest causes one in five deaths in industrialized countries. Most sudden cardiac arrests occur in the community in people not known to be at risk. Acardiac arrhythmia, calledventricular fibrillation, causes the heart to stop pumping and blood flow ceases. If blood flow is not res...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people (such as the unexpected near fatal cardiac arrest suffered by the-then 23 year old footballer Fabrice Muamba), but the microscopic heart muscle abnormalities behind these tragic events can only be picked up in ...
When hospital staff or family members observe warning signs and trigger timely intervention by a rapid response team, rates of cardiac arrest and mortality ... KT Van Voorhis,TS Willis - 《Pediatric Clinics of North America》 被引量: 40发表: 2009年 Systems to prevent in-hospital cardiac arres...