What’s the Difference Between A Heart Attack And Sudden Cardiac Arrest

21/12/2020 0
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Today I wish to talk to you about sudden cardiac arrest and heart attack. They are two different entities. As the name implies, sudden cardiac arrest means there is a problem in the heart that happens suddenly, (Heart Attack Treatment) heart attack is an attack inside the heart. But we have to understand that there are two different things.

Heart Attack

When we get a heart attack, it is because of the sudden closure of one of the blood vessels of the heart, which presents itself with sudden retrosternal pain in the chest wall, as if somebody has died a bad in our chest and the pain can radiate to our neck and jaws, to our shoulders and the inner side of our arms. That is called a heart attack. It happens because there is a sudden blockage in one of the three blood vessels of the heart, it can present itself in various forms, either sudden pain in the center of the chest or can also come with excessive sweating, vomiting, nausea, just pain in the jaw. If you find any of these symptoms, do not neglect them, you must seek medical attention and go to the Best Heart Specialist In Delhi. And this is called a heart attack because of the blockage of a blood vessel.

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Sudden Cardiac Arrest

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 Let me now talk to you about sudden cardiac arrest. Sudden Cardiac is the arrest of the heart beating. Sudden cardiac is the appearance of sudden symptoms and the patient can die within one hour. It is typically because of an electrical abnormality in the heart while the heart attack was because of blockage of the blood vessel. Sudden cardiac arrest is because of an abnormality of the electrical system of the heart. Normally, our heartbeats can go from a pulse of 60 to 100 beats a minute.

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But when there is sudden cardiac arrest, our heartbeats very rapidly from the lower chamber and can be as much as 200 to 250 beats per minute, wherein we lose our consciousness and the person can die. So a sudden cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death happens because of an electrical abnormality, which typically happens in patients who have suffered a heart attack in the past or have an ongoing heart attack, or had some disease in the heart.

So always remember, a heart attack is because of blockage of the blood vessels by cardiac arrest is because of an electrical abnormality. Whether there is complete chaos in the heart, the heart is unable to pump blood out to the brain, and we can die if we don’t intervene. So that’s what we should know about the differences between the two. If you ever feel any symptoms, please attend to your medical doctor. Let your Top Heart Specialist in Delhi know about the same

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