Interesting Medical Tidbit

[helwen]

Cooling to save cardiac arrest victims

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[calygrey.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting. Thank you for posting that.

I was quite surprised at high fatality rate of heart attack. I had thought it was better than that.

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Not all, or even most, 'heart attacks' are cardiac arrests: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/CardiacArrest/About-Cardiac-Arrest_UCM_307905_Article.jsp

In a cardiac arrest, the heart stops beating entirely.

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

I have an acquaintance in Eisental who had a series of heart episodes (I don't know if they were all strokes, all heart attacks, or a mixture) where the incidents just kept happening minutes apart and they couldn't get them stopped. They eventually put her in a medical coma and chilled her down until they could get her stabilized. She walks, talks and can mostly see now, which is something of a medical miracle.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful!