What is cardiac arrest?
Cardiac arrest is the sudden, abrupt loss of heart function. The victim may or may not have diagnosed heart disease.
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Cardiac arrest is the sudden loss of cardiac function, when the heart abruptly stops beating. The person will lose consciousness.
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Sudden cardiac arrest is the sudden, unexpected loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness. Would you like to know more?
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The heart does not beat and breathing ceases, which starves the body of oxygen. A person can be revived at first several minutes.
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Cardiac arrest is the sudden cessation of heartbeat and cardiac function, resulting in the loss of effective circulation. ChaCha!
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Cardiac arrest absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation)
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Cardiac Arrest - n : absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular (MORE?)
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About Heart Disease
Heart disease is a blanket term for any type of disease that affects the heart. It can refer to coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, congenital heart disease, ischemic cardiomyopathy, hypertensive cardiomyopathy, valvular cardiomyopathy, inflammatory cardiomyopathy, myocardiodystrophy or any other number of heart diseases.
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