What is cardiac arrest?

Question

What is cardiac arrest?

Answer 1

when your heart fails its another phrase for a heart attack. they can use the defribliator to revive you

Answer 2

Cardiac arrest is the stoppage off effective heart action with some causes being:

Acute Myocardial Infarction (heart attack)

Hypoxaemia

Hypovolaemia

Hypo/Hyperthermia

Hypo/Hyperkalaemia and othe metabolic disorders

Tamponade

Tension pneumothorax

Toxins/ Poisons/ Drugs

Thrombembolism

So to the previous answer which were really funny, there is more cause to a cardiac arrest than just a heart attack. When the heart stops completely your dead thats it your've gone past cardiac arrest.

Edit: I've read some of the answers and must reiterate that a heart attack is not the only cause for a cardiac arrest.

Answer 3

cardiac = heart

arrest = stop



Your heart stops.  That is a cardiac arrest.

You can have a heart attack without having a cardiac arrest.

Answer 4

A cardiac arrest the heart has stopped completely or beating in an uncoordinated heart beat.  A heart attack(myocardial infarction) is sudden death of part of the heart muscle.

Answer 5

The easiest way to explain it is

A Cardiac arrest is the heart beat stopping...like an electrical problem

A heart attack is when blood flow to the heart gets blocked...a plumbing problem.

Cardiac arrests are very bad and often deadly and a defibrillator is the only way to reveive these patients.  If you aren';t defibrillated/zapped within about 5 minutes your chances of survival lessen greatly.

A heart attack is also bad but you have a better chance of getting to the hospital alive if you act quickly.

Answer 6

In TV shows when someone is at the hospital and there heart beat goes flat line, thats when the heart stops.  

Answer 7

heart attack