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Sudden cardiac arrest

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What it is

The heart stops pumping — death within minutes without CPR.

Symptoms & signs

  • Sudden collapse
  • no pulse
  • no normal breathing
  • unresponsive

🚩 Get help if…

  • call 112 / 911 now Collapse with no response and no normal breathing
  • call 112 / 911 now Gasping or no breathing after a collapse
  • call 112 / 911 now Fainting during exercise or with chest pain

Where it strikes

Medical treatment

  • Immediate CPR and defibrillation
  • adrenaline
  • treat the cause
  • targeted temperature management
  • ICD afterwards

Natural & lifestyle

  • Bystander CPR training
  • public defibrillators
  • screen athletes with family history

Emerging & experimental

  • Extracorporeal CPR (ECPR)
  • drone-delivered defibrillators
  • head-up CPR

Alternative, off-label & anecdotal

Approaches used outside the guidelines, with what their supporters report and what testing has found so far.

  • Head-up CPR and impedance valves — early studies show better neurological survival early / small studies
  • Precordial thump — an old manoeuvre; rarely works and no longer taught anecdotal / traditional

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