In the case of cardiac arrest, the heart stops running its tasks. According to Douglas Zipes, MD, former President of The American College of Cardiology, cardiac arrest is not same as heart attack, but cardiac arrest can also occur due to heart attack.
According to the American Heart Association, 90 percent of cases of cardiac arrest occurred due to stoppage of at least two coronary arterial branch. “Cardiac arrest is a disturbance in heart rhythm in the heart chamber, the ventricles, beat too fast and not regular, ie, 4 – 600 times per minute,” said Zipes.
It is caused by the turmoil electric current at the heart. As a result, the heart chamber walls vibrate and did not able to pump blood so that occur the failure of vital organs. Electric current turmoil in the heart, according to Zipes, is also called with ventricular fibrillation.
The first help to the cardiac arrest is giving pressure to the sternum five centimeters deep (in adults) as much as one hundred times per minute. However, the heart must soon get the electric shock tool that is called defibrillator and usually only in the hospital.
According to Zipes, 30-50 percent of cardiac arrest patients do not experience symptoms of heart trouble. “You can never feel pain in the chest, difficulty breathing, or short breath. Basically, there’s no signs of danger experienced,” he said.
Prevention efforts to cardiac arrest is to run healthy lifestyle and regular exercise.
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