Cardiac Arrest Research Paper

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1. Intro (page 1): When some friends were playing basketball all of a sudden one person fell and was unresponsive and turned blue and very pale. Immediately you dial 911. Sudden cardiac arrest is the number one reason people die in the U.S and in one year can kill 325,000 people or more. Fortunately, medical research has been done and there are many ways to revive a person, one being CPR.
2. Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Other Emergencies: SCA and heart attacks are not the same. SCA is when abnormal rhythms of the heart disrupt the heart’s impulses making the heart stops pumping. A heart attack slows blood flow in a short amount of time. When you have either you need medical attention but only 5% of people with SCA survive. CPR can help a person …show more content…

When performing CPR all that is happening is the heart is squeezed between the breast and backbone forcing blood out with delivers oxygen to other body organs.

6. CPR vs. Defibrillation: CPR helps keep a patient alive for the opportunity of having medical professionals come take over but does not save people who have sudden cardiac arrest. If you have SCA you probably have VF (ventricular fibrillation) where the heart’s beat is irregular and CPR does not correct this but defibrillation can. The shock from defibrillation stops the heart for a short moment giving it a chance to start beating normally again. CPR only keeps the heart beating (and the patient alive) until an automatic external defibrillator (AED) arrives.
7. CPR and infectious disease: some people do not perform CPR on strangers due to the worry of either doing it incorrectly or harming the person who needs CPR. Others fear that an infectious disease will be passed to them when performing CPR even though in history this has never been documented. If ever put in this scenario only do chest compressions not mouth-to-mouth and if still have worries about touching body fluids wear

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