Heart Attack Vs Cardiac Arrest: Do You Know How To Differentiate?
Is it a heart attack or a cardiac arrest? Dr. M S Chandramouli MD, DM, IDCC, PDF(EP) Trust Hospitals, Kakinada explains the right way to differentiate between the two.
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A cardiac arrest is the sudden cessation of normal circulation of the blood when the heart stops beating. The heart stops pumping blood. It is different from a heart attack where blood flow to the heart is blocked but the heart usually continues to beat. Stopped blood circulation prevents oxygen delivery to different parts of the body. Decreased blood supply to the brain causes loss of consciousness and abnormal or absent breathing. Lack of treatment can result in brain damage and ultimately, death.
Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency. It can be reversed if treated early enough. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to restart blood circulation followed by defibrillation (giving an electric shock) to restart the natural cardiac pacemaker is the usual procedure to deal with cardiac arrests.
The most common cause of cardiac arrest is uncoordinated contraction of muscle of the lower chambers (ventricular fibrillation). Other causes include include coronary heart disease, enlarged heart, congenital heart disease physical stress, etc.
Is it a heart attack or a cardiac arrest? Dr. M S Chandramouli MD, DM, IDCC, PDF(EP) Trust Hospitals, Kakinada explains the right way to differentiate between the two.
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The condition usually results from a hindrance to the heart's electrical system, which disrupts the heart's pumping action, thus leading to a sudden stop in the blood flow to other parts of the body.
Some of the health complications that follow a cardiac arrest are listed below, take a close look at them and stay cautious about them, as not taking proper care 'on time' can make things worse.
Women are more likely to experience nontraditional heart attack symptoms compared with men. Many women don't know that heart disease is seven times deadlier than breast cancer. In 2018, heart disease killed 300,977 women. By comparison, all forms of cancer combined killed 283,721 women, with 42,455 of those caused by breast cancer. In this video our expert doctor will be talking about heart diseases which is common in women. Watch Video.
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Young women have greater rates of cardiovascular and all-cause hospital readmission than young males. As risk factors for heart disease in young women continue to grow, this highlights the importance of continued efforts to strengthen preventative techniques. Their findings were published in Elsevier`s Canadian Journal of Cardiology. Several prior studies have found that women have worse outcomes compared to men after experiencing a heart attack. Young women were found to be at particularly high risk, with much higher mortality rates than young men, and worse outcomes even when compared with older women.
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udden cardiac arrest is a life-threatening condition in which your heart comes to a standstill. Your heart isn't pumping blood anymore. Within minutes, this puts your organs and whole body at risk of death. When you have a sudden cardiac arrest, your body's organs can't receive any oxygen. Without immediate help to get oxygen to your brain and other vital organs, this is fatal. Sudden cardiac arrest has many risk factors, especially coronary heart disease.
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The most common neurological consequence of cardiac arrest is known as hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. This type of injury, which is a leading cause of significant disability or death following resuscitation, is named for the factor that triggers it (lack of oxygen or hypoxia) and its impact on the cells, known as ischemia. In some cases, these challenges are related to brain injury sustained during the post-cardiac arrest period, where others stem from the initial cause of the cardiac arrest itself, such as a traumatic accident.
Depression, overthinking and stress all these have become major issues which needs to be addressed more often. This year we have seen multiple cases of cardiac arrest,and in most cases people have lost their lives. If we talk about the famous Bollywood singer KK he also died due to cardiac arrest, recently we have seen comedian Raju Srivastava who fought his battle for more than 40 days and lost his life due to cardiac arrest. In this video we will tell you how cardiac arrest and other heart problems can be due to stress and mental tension.
Fitness has become a priority for everyone, To achieve their fitness targets or goals lot of people tend to over-exercise without even realizing how adversely it can affect their body. In the recent death case of the famous comedian Raju Srivastava, it was observed that he collapsed while he was running on the treadmill, he experienced chest pain and was immediately rushed to the hospital and after being hospitalized for over more than a month he lost his life due to cardiac arrest. In this video, we have our expert doctor who is going to talk about what side effects we can face if we exercise more than our capacity.
After the news of the Comedian's demise broke, it left all of us in shock, Raju Srivastava had a heart attack on August 10 and was hospitalized after he complained of chest pain, while running on a treadmill at the gym. He also underwent an angioplasty the same day. The comedian regained consciousness after 15 days on ventilator support. Let us know from the expert that what all we need to do in order to avoid chest pain, heart attacks & Cardiac Arrest.
Heart diseases have become common these days, we see a lot of cases of heart attacks and cardiac arrest in young adults and mostly in middle age people. Now, what are the causes of it, what are the differences between cardiac & heart attack, what treatment should be provided, to talk about this we have our expert doctor.
A video is of a doctor saving a person's life is viral on the internet these days. In that video a patient suffered a cardiac arrest and the doctor quickly gets up from his chair and rushes to his aid. He then thumps on the patient's chest a few times and saves his life with the timely intervention.
The video was shared by Rajya Sabha MP Dhananjay Madadik, who is from Maharashtra's Kohlapur. Scroll down to WATCH.
The video was shared by Rajya Sabha MP Dhananjay Madadik, who is from Maharashtra's Kohlapur. Scroll down to WATCH.
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