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Understanding the Difference Between Heart Attack and Cardiac Arrest

MIBHS

When discussing heart health, heart attacks and cardiac arrest are two terms that are often mistaken for one another. Understanding the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest can help in recognizing symptoms, seeking prompt medical care, and even saving lives. What is Cardiac Arrest?

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ECMO management for severe pulmonary embolism with concurrent cerebral hemorrhage: a case report

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundAcute pulmonary embolism (APE) is a common and potentially fatal cardiovascular disease that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest in severe cases. For patients with concurrent main pulmonary artery embolism and bleeding, balloon pulmonary angioplasty may be an option.

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Chest Pain and Right Bundle Branch Block

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Here are three more dramatic cases that illustrate RBBB + LAFB Case 1 of cardiac arrest with unrecognized STEMI, died. Furthermore, among 35 patients with acute left main coronary artery occlusion, 9 presented with RBBB (mostly with LAH) on the admission ECG.

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ECG Blog #373 — 86yo and this Rhythm.

Ken Grauer, MD

As discussed in ECG Blog #108 — AIVR generally occurs in one of the following C linical S ettings : i ) As a rhythm during cardiac arrest; ii ) In the monitoring phase of acute MI ( especially with inferior MI ) ; or , iii ) As a reperfusion arrhythmia ( ie, following thrombolysis, acute angioplasty, or spontaneous reperfusion ).

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A dialysis patient with nonspecific symptoms and pseudonormalization of ST segments

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The lesion was intervened on with balloon angioplasty and had subsequent TIMI 3 flow. Dialysis patients had double the rate of cardiac arrest (11% vs 5%), were less likely to receive reperfusion therapy when eligible (47% vs. 75%), and had an increased odds ratio of death compared to nondialysis patients 1.5 (95%

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An elderly woman with acute vomiting, presyncope, and hypotension, and a wide QRS complex

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Other cases of LAD OMI with RBBB/LAFB: A man in his 40s who really needs you to understand his ECG Cardiac Arrest at the airport, with an easy but important ECG for everyone to recognize A woman in her 60s with 6 hours of chest pain, dyspnea, tachycardia, and hypoxemia Ventricular Fibrillation, ROSC after perfusion restored by ECMO, then ECG.