Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency It happens when an electrical disturbance, quickly and unexpectedly causes your heart to stop working.  It is not a heart attack and is called sudden because it seems to happen without warning.  This happens when the heart cannot fulfill its duties and pump blood around the body to get to critical areas, such as the brain. When there is an arrest, there are two things that happen, The heart stops electrically, so the heart is not going to pump; the other  is the heart goes into an abnormal or lethal rhythm which is called ventricular fibrillation A more chaotic rhythm of the heart.  Both of these put you into cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac death. Survival is possible with immediate medical care. It is important  to restore the rhythm of the heart as fast as you  can. If someone passes out, you want to make sure that they’re breathing, their heart has a pulse and their heart is pumping. Call 911 and start CPR immediately.