Synonyms for cardiac arrest
car·diac ar·rest

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1. asystole, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrestnoun

   absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death

   Synonyms:
   cardiopulmonary arrest, asystole

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1. Morten Boesen:

   He was gone. And we did cardiac resuscitation. And it was cardiac arrest, how close were we ? I do n’t know. We got him back after one defib. That’s quite fast.

2. Anthony Carlyon:

   Paramedics attend about 5,000 cardiac arrests every year across the state, our cardiac arrest results are very impressive, with our survival rates among the world’s best.

3. Comilla Sasson:

   In my mind, this adds to the body of evidence that says CPR really matters, we as a community need to start thinking about what are we really going to do to get to the next level so it isn't just a 50-50 shot of whether I get CPR if I have cardiac arrest. It really needs to be 100 percent.

4. John Higgins:

   There's been several cases described of people that have gone into cardiac arrest after consuming more than one energy beverage, and when they've done sort of further analysis on these individuals, they haven't been able to find anything abnormal other than the very high levels of caffeine and taurine in the toxicology, in one case, a young 28-year-old who drunk eight cans of an energy drink actually went into cardiac arrest, and they found John Higgins arteries of John Higgins heart were completely locked up. When they were able to open them up, all the testing revealed nothing wrong with this person other than he had high levels of caffeine and taurine.

5. Damar Hamlin:

   Sudden cardiac arrest happens to more than 7,000 kids under the age of 18 every year in our country – 7,000 kids every year. The majority of the kids impacted are student-athletes, and research shows that 1 in every 300 youth has an undetected heart condition that puts them at risk. For schools that have AEDs, the survival rate for the children from sudden cardiac arrest is seven times higher.