Warning Signals For Sudden Cardiac Arrest

People of my age ( Sixty Plus) constantly  suffer from the fear of Sudden Cardiac Arrest as we live a Sedentary lifestyle.  Doctors says Sudden Cardiac Arrest takes one life every two minutes, claiming more lives than breast cancer, lung cancer, or AIDS. Over 60 percent of the people are still unaware of the disease. Though it’s commonly confused with a heart attack, cardiac arrest is different – and much worse.It causes the heart’s electrical activity to be knocked out of rhythm, abruptly stopping it from beating. So much so that even a small chest pain is, often. taken as alarm to cardiac arrest. Almost  the  The heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating. Blood stops flowing to the brain and other vital organs, and without treatment, within minutes a person is typically dead. However, a new study has suggested, it is not as sudden as first thought.Half of sufferers experience warning signals hours, days, sometimes even weeks before cardiac arrest strikes, doctors at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles have discovered. But, most people ignore those symptoms .In men the most common symptom was chest pain.While female sufferers were more likely to experience a shortness of breath.Other warning signs noted included fainting and heart palpitations. A study found that only a fraction of patients considered their symptoms bad enough to call emergency before they collapsed – and those people were the most likely to survive.A person’s chances of experiencing cardiac arrest is also increased if they’ve had previous heart attacks, coronary heart disease and certain inherited disorders that affect heartbeat.People who know they are at a high risk may receive an implanted defibrillator to shock their heart back into rhythm.Cardiac arrest is reversible in most victims if treated within minutes. It can be reversed if a trained emergency rescue team reaches the person quickly. Chances of survival reduce by 7-10 percent with every passing minute.