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what are the symptoms of cardiac arrest - #20611

Fatima

I am struggling to understand what are the symptoms of cardiac arrest since my dad had a really scary episode last week. He was watching TV and suddenly started feeling dizzy and complaining about chest pain. At first, we thought it was just indigestion or something, but then he collapsed in front of us! It was totally shocking, I thought I was going to faint myself. We called 911 right away, and they said they suspected cardiac arrest after they took his pulse and noticed he wasn’t breathing. They kept asking us about symptoms of cardiac arrest, but we were so freaked out, we couldn’t think straight. Now, after he’s stable, I can’t stop worrying about how I might’ve missed signs before this happened. I keep reading online but every site says different things. Like, is chest pain always present or can other symptoms show up first? What are the symptoms of cardiac arrest besides the obvious? I'm terrified, I just want to know if there were things that we could have noticed earlier. It just feels surreal, you know? Trying to piece everything together, maybe I could’ve helped him before it got so bad. Any info on what are the symptoms of cardiac arrest would really help me out, just so I can feel a bit more prepared moving forward.

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