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Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases affecting the heart. As of 2007, it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, killing one person every 34 seconds in the United States alone.
The blood vessels consist of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins. All blood is carried in these vessels. The arteries, which are strong, flexible, and resilient, carry blood away from the heart and bear the highest blood pressures. Because arteries are elastic, they narrow (recoil) passively when the heart is relaxing between beats and thus help maintain blood pressure. The arteries branch into smaller and smaller vessels, eventually becoming very small vessels called arterioles. Arteries and arterioles have muscular walls that can adjust their diameter to increase or decrease blood flow to a particular part of the body.
2009-06-27

The Difference Between Cardiac Arrest and a Heart Attack  

With the adoption of Michael Jackson recently, there were a lot of comments, what is the difference between cardiac arrest and a heart attack, if at all. The word on the street these days is whether it is the same thing with just a different name? Why do they refer to him as a cardiac arrest in the place of a heart attack?

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of the emergency reserve Provider, CPR may be on the implementation of a patient, they are apparently the same. As they desperately try to make life of patients with regard to cardiac arrest and heart attack are interchangeable. Often even the television and newspapers are often mistakenly mix them.

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It is indeed a difference in the two and as a first responder or an emergency service provider, it is important that you know that this, although as long as CPR is started immediately on the patient at this time is not really important.

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Medically speaking, the term heart attack is usually a kind of damage to the heart muscle from a lack of blood flow. Generally, this flow keeps is the result of a blood clot, which have increased in the arteries to the heart. Once the flow of blood because of the blocked artery of the heart muscle quickly begins to die immediately. This leads to significant pain in the chest and related symptoms, usually associated with a heart attack.

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cardiac arrest on the other hand, occurs when there is no longer any reason the heart is able to pump blood. There is no more blood is pumped through the body of the patient's blood pressure falls out of the muscles and organs are hungry for blood. Your heart is probably very low or in some cases it will begin to pump in one sentence does not prevent it no longer fill with blood. This action causes the blood pressure to drop further.

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You must be able to detect when a heart attack occurs, to help quickly and prevent cardiac arrest charge. One should never hesitate to call 911 for an ambulance at any time that the chest pains are experienced. If someone randomly assembled in your area and stops breathing, it is likely that they are victims of cardiac arrest and CPR, you should immediately.

By Joseph Parish

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