Reason of cardiac arrest - #12570
I am really worried about my uncle. Last month, out of nowhere, he just collapsed at home. It was super sudden, like one minute he was watching TV and the next minute, he was on the floor. They said it was a cardiac arrest, but like, what even is the reason of cardiac arrest? I mean, he wasn't even doing anything extreme. Just a regular guy in his 50s, kinda healthy. He had some high blood pressure but never thought much of it. The doctors kept throwing around words like “ischemia” and “arrhythmia,” but what does any of that mean in terms of the reason of cardiac arrest? He had no warning signs! No chest pain or anything. They gave him CPR, rushed him to the hospital, and thank god, he survived—but I can't help but wonder what actually triggered it. Ever since then, I've been reading everything I can find on the reason of cardiac arrest and it just doesn’t add up. I mean, could stress have played a role? How common is this stuff, really? I’m really struggling to understand how someone can just go from fine to needing serious help in seconds. How can we know if it could happen again? What should we be looking for?
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