Cardiovascular Disease
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Cardiac Arrest
Mr. Stapleton
November 20th, 2012
Would you like to feel or be close to death? How would you like to have your heart pump rapidly out of control? A cardiac Arrest is the absence of ventricular contraction that results in systemic circulatory failure. A Cardiac Arrest is something that can happen out of nowhere without you knowing. You can be cooking and you just collapse and go into Cardiac Arrest. It’s that easy! And many people died and continue to die from Cardiac Arrest. According to Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine “Cardiac Arrest is the sudden loss of cardiac function, when the heart abruptly stops beating” (2008) Fauci, Anthony. S(2008). Cardiac arrest symptoms and causes, Harrison of Principles of Internal Medicine, Retrieved from: http://www.Medicinent.com/cardiac-arrest-symptoms-and-causes/view.htm A Cardiac Arrest is caused by an arrhythmia which can make your heart beat too fast, too slow, or stop completely. When you think someone’s going into a Cardiac Arrest look for lost of consciousness, not breathing, no pulse, none responsive to a tap on the shoulders. So without medical attention that person can die within a few minutes. You have a greater chance of survive if someone applied CPR on that person. In addition, according to Medtronic UK Ltd “There’s a greater risk for men around the world to catch a Cardiac Arrest than women accord too many different races, for African American men it’s (253.6%) and for women it’s (175.3%)” Retrieved from: http://www.suddencardiacarrest.co.uk/prevention/index.htm For young children between 1-4 years old, adolescents between 13-17 years old, young adults 18-35 years old and older adults 80 years and older have a chance to experience a Cardiac Arrest within their lifetime. In my opinion, I don’t think you can prevent a Cardiac Arrest from happening to you. In other cases there are many ways you can prevent a
Cardiac Arrest
Mr. Stapleton
November 20th, 2012
Would you like to feel or be close to death? How would you like to have your heart pump rapidly out of control? A cardiac Arrest is the absence of ventricular contraction that results in systemic circulatory failure. A Cardiac Arrest is something that can happen out of nowhere without you knowing. You can be cooking and you just collapse and go into Cardiac Arrest. It’s that easy! And many people died and continue to die from Cardiac Arrest. According to Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine “Cardiac Arrest is the sudden loss of cardiac function, when the heart abruptly stops beating” (2008) Fauci, Anthony. S(2008). Cardiac arrest symptoms and causes, Harrison of Principles of Internal Medicine, Retrieved from: http://www.Medicinent.com/cardiac-arrest-symptoms-and-causes/view.htm A Cardiac Arrest is caused by an arrhythmia which can make your heart beat too fast, too slow, or stop completely. When you think someone’s going into a Cardiac Arrest look for lost of consciousness, not breathing, no pulse, none responsive to a tap on the shoulders. So without medical attention that person can die within a few minutes. You have a greater chance of survive if someone applied CPR on that person. In addition, according to Medtronic UK Ltd “There’s a greater risk for men around the world to catch a Cardiac Arrest than women accord too many different races, for African American men it’s (253.6%) and for women it’s (175.3%)” Retrieved from: http://www.suddencardiacarrest.co.uk/prevention/index.htm For young children between 1-4 years old, adolescents between 13-17 years old, young adults 18-35 years old and older adults 80 years and older have a chance to experience a Cardiac Arrest within their lifetime. In my opinion, I don’t think you can prevent a Cardiac Arrest from happening to you. In other cases there are many ways you can prevent a