All About Cardiac Arrest
Posted on: 16/Sep/2015 2:27:51 PM
Dying in sleep is often heard taking place in common. But have we got enough understanding of how it takes place? In most such cases, sudden cardiac arrest is because of undetected heart rhythm disorder or unknown coronary artery disease.
Unfortunately, the awareness about both these is very less with the people in India as well as the healthcare providers. They remain unaware of the required mechanisms that need to be adopted for reducing the risk of such mishap.
Dr Kartikeya Bhargava, Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the Gurgaon`s leading hospital, Medanta explains the need for timely identification and treatment for patients at such extreme risk of sudden cardiac death. Know how a cardiac arrest can be predicted by performing a blood test.
In case of cardiac death, in just one hour of the onset of symptoms, the affected individual falls dead. There are over 35,00,000 such deaths in the US every year. Such a clear statistical data is so far not obtained in India. However, as per the existing data, there are many such deaths caused by heart ailments. Coronary heart disease or blockage in artery stand as the primitive reason for such death in India. There are meagre number of individuals who really take precautionary measures for such death.
When people experience faint, they ignore it and continue with their routine works. This happens mainly in smaller towns. By predicting at the right time, such deaths can be very well prevented by making use of pacemaker-like device called Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. These are implanted below the collarbone which will send life-saving electrical signals which helps the heart in bringing back the normal rhythm when there is any abnormality in the heart rhythm.
If you have got high blood pressure or high levels of cholesterol or history of coronary artery disease, diabetes or obesity, you are prone to such cardiac arrest.
