What is Cardiac arrest?
What is Cardiac arrest?
- Cardiac arrest: Stoppage of the heart, usually caused by heart attack.
- Cardiac arrest: Cessation of the heart beat.
Source - Diseases Database
- Cardiac arrest: absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Cardiac arrest: Introduction
Types of Cardiac arrest:
Broader types of Cardiac arrest:
How serious is Cardiac arrest?
Complications of Cardiac arrest:
see complications of Cardiac arrest
What causes Cardiac arrest?
Causes of Cardiac arrest: see causes of Cardiac arrest
Risk factors for Cardiac arrest:
see
risk factors for Cardiac arrest
What are the symptoms of Cardiac arrest?
Symptoms of Cardiac arrest:
see symptoms of Cardiac arrest
Complications of Cardiac arrest:
see complications of Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Cardiac arrest.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Cardiac arrest.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Cardiac arrest:
see treatments for Cardiac arrest
Research for Cardiac arrest:
see research for Cardiac arrest
Society issues for Cardiac arrest
Hospitalization statistics for Cardiac arrest:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Cardiac arrest:
- 0.03% (3,795) of hospital consultant episodes were for cardiac arrest in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 70% of hospital consultant episodes for cardiac arrest required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 58% of hospital consultant episodes for cardiac arrest were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 42% of hospital consultant episodes for cardiac arrest were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 3% of hospital consultant episodes for cardiac arrest required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 9.9 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for cardiac arrest in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Cardiac arrest:
Organs and body systems related to Cardiac arrest include:
Name and Aliases of Cardiac arrest
Main name of condition: Cardiac arrest
Other names or spellings for Cardiac arrest:
Asystole, Cardiopulmonary arrest
Source - WordNet 2.1
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