DEFINITION OF CARDIAC ARREST

Based on The British Heart Foundation’s website, a cardiac arrest is when

your heart suddenly stops pumping blood round your body, commonly because of a
problem with electrical signals in your heart. When your heart stops pumping blood,
your brain is starved of oxygen. This causes you to fall unconscious and stop
breathing. The most common cause of a cardiac arrest is a life-threatening abnormal
heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF).Ventricular fibrillation happens when
the electrical activity of your heart becomes so chaotic that the heart stops pumping
and quivers or 'fibrillates' instead. 

American Heart Association said that cardiac arrest is the abrupt loss of heart
function in a person who may or may not have been diagnosed with heart disease. It
can come on suddenly, or in the wake of other symptoms. Cardiac arrest is often
fatal, if appropriate steps aren’t taken immediately. Cardiac arrest is triggered by an
electrical malfunction in the heart that causes an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia).
With its pumping action disrupted, the heart cannot pump blood to the brain, lungs
and other organs. Seconds later, a person becomes unresponsive, is not breathing
or is only gasping. Death occurs within minutes if the victim does not receive
treatment.

Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary stated that cardiac arrest is the cessation
of effective pumping action of the heart. This may be because the heart stops
beating altogether (asystole), because there is normal electrical activity without
mechanical pumping activity (pulseless electrical activity), or because there is rapid,
chaotic, ineffective electrical and mechanical activity of the heart (ventricular
fibrillation). There is abrupt loss of consciousness, absence of the pulse of the pulse,
and breathing stops. Unless treatment promptly, irreversible brain damage and death
follow within minutes. Some patients may be resuscitated by airway clearance and
support, artificial ventilation, massage of the heart, and (if ventricular fibrillation or
tachycardia is present) defibrillation.
Question of Definition of Cardiac Arrest

1. The following are the symptoms of the cardiac arrest except?

a. Shortness of breath
b. Chest pain
c. Enchephalopathy
d. Loss of consciousness

2. The definition of cardiac arrest is

a. Loss of blood flow resulting from the heart block
b. Infarction of lung
c. Infarction in myocardium because of low oxygen supplied
d. The enlargement of left ventricle

3. The following are the true statements of the cardiac arrest except
a. Can cause to death
b. Happen without warning
c. Do the investigation first
d. All the above

4. “A situation which triggered by an electrical malfunction in the heart that

causes an irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia)”.
This statement is for?
a. Heart attack
b. Cardiac arrest
c. Left ventricle failure
d. Corpulmonary
5. , A ____________ is when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood
round your body, commonly because of a problem with electrical signals in
your heart.
a. Cardiac shock
b. Cardiac arrest
c. Cardiac death
d. Cardiac stoned

6. Which of the following statement is correct about cardiac arrest?

a. cessation of effective pumping action of the heart.
b. Necrosis of the cell in the part of the heart.
c. Enlargement of the right part of the heart.
d. Inflammation in visceral cavity of the heart.

7. What are the signs of cardiac arrest?

i. No pulse

ii. No breathing

iii. tacycardia

iv. dyspnea

a. I and ii
b. I and iii
c. Iii and iv
d. Ii and iii
8. Is cardiac arrest similiar to heart attack?
a. Yes, both are about the circulation problem
b. Yes, both are about the electrical problem
c. No, cardiac arrest is about electrical problem while
heart attack is about circulation problem
d. No. Cardiac arrest is about heart circulation problem while
heart attack is about electrical problem.

9. What may causes a cardiac arrest?

a. Upper respiratory track infection (URTI)
b. Atelectasis
c. Heart defects
d. An incomplete flow of conduction system

10. What statement is related to cardiac arrest?

a. The heart stops beating
b. The decreasing of blood flow
c. Anemia
d. Infarction in heart layers
 11 . MR.N was hospitalised a week ago. After an investigation he get to know
that he got cardiac arrest.

state the definition of the cardiac arrest with the correct explenation?
(3m)
-a cardiac arrest is when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood
round your body, commonly because of a problem with electrical
signals in your heart. When your heart stops pumping blood, your
brain is starved of oxygen. This causes you to fall unconscious and
stop breathing

12. what are the simptoms of the cardiac arrest? (7m)

-chest pain

-no breath

-unconsiosness

-nausea

-sweating

-dilated pupils

-incontinence of urine and feces