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2. Cardiac arrest - Wikipedia

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   The underlying causes of sudden cardiac arrest can result from cardiac and non-cardiac etiologies. The most common underlying causes are different, depending on the patient's age. Common cardiac causes include coronary artery disease , non-atherosclerotic coronary artery abnormalities, structural heart damage, and inherited arrhythmias.

3. Hs and Ts - Wikipedia

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   Cardiac arrest can also occur after a hard blow to the chest at a precise moment in the cardiac cycle, which is known as commotio cordis. Other traumatic events such as high speed car crashes can cause sufficient structural damage to induce arrest.

4. Traumatic cardiac arrest - Wikipedia

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   Traumatic cardiac arrest is a complex form of cardiac arrest often derailing from advanced cardiac life support in the sense that the emergency team must first establish the cause of the traumatic arrest and reverse these effects, for example hypovolemia and haemorrhagic shock due to a penetrating injury.

5. What are cardiac arrest, heart attack and heart failure? - AOL

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   Unlike cardiac arrest, a heart attack is a circulation problem. When circulation is blocked or cut off in some way and blood is no longer supplied to the heart muscle, this can damage that muscle ...

6. What is cardiac arrest? Is a heart attack the same thing? - AOL

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   What causes cardiac arrest? There are many potential causes of cardiac arrest. According to the Mayo Clinic, the most common cause is irregular heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation, ...

7. Electrical injury - Wikipedia

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   Other issues affecting lethality are frequency, which is an issue in causing cardiac arrest or muscular spasms. Very high frequency electric current causes tissue burning, but do not stimulate the nerves strongly enough to cause cardiac arrest (see electrosurgery). Also important is the pathway: if the current passes through the chest or head ...

8. Cardiac arrest is top cause of death in young athletes: Know ...

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   Another possible cause of cardiac arrest in young people is myocarditis, inflammation in the heart that occurs when someone is sick, usually following a viral infection. In this case, chest pain ...

9. Cold shock response - Wikipedia

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   For people with pre-existing cardiovascular disease, the additional workload can result in myocardial infarction and/or acute heart failure, which ultimately may lead to a cardiac arrest. A vagal response to an extreme stimulus as this one, may, in very rare cases, render per se a cardiac arrest. Hypothermia and extreme stress can both ...