DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CARDIAC ARREST AND HEART ATTACK

diffrence between cardiac arrest and heart attack

 

A cardiac arrest and heart attack, are life-threatening health and medical emergencies. Understanding the symptoms and knowledge of both diseases helps a doctor, what emergency treatment should take, which saves a human life.

Medical definitions of both diseases can be baffling, but here you can understand the differences between cardiac arrest and heart attack.

 

HEART ATTACK:

A heart attack is due to a blockage in blood circulation that restricts the flow of blood to the heart. Maximum heart attacks are due to CAD (coronary artery disease). Your lifestyle
habits including routine diet patterns and exercise habits, your age, and other medical issues can enhance your risk factor.

A heart attack is often mentioned as a (MI) myocardial infarction when blood flow is cut off to the heart. When deoxygenated blood flows to the heart, it causes damage to any important organs of the body, and the heart muscle may start to die.

CARDIAC ARREST:

A cardiac arrest is due to the breakdown of the electrical impulses of the heart. It’s basically due to arrhythmia, which interferes with the electrical system and rhythm of the heart. When the arrhythmia of the heart stops, cardiac arrest happens.

On the other side, cardiac arrest is also called sudden cardiac death. The meaning of the word “arrest” is to stop or to immobilize. In cardiac arrest, the heartbeat stops, which is a tremendous emergency and a serious medical situation. it can cause sudden and immediate death.

In this article, you can compare the causes, symptoms, and medication for both cardiac arrest and heart attack. 

cardiac arrest and heart attack

 

SYMPTOMS OF HEART ATTACK AND CARDIAC ARREST:

A cardiac arrest and heart attack are life-threatening emergencies. It’s very important to have actual knowledge of both diseases’ symptoms.

SYMPTOMS OF HEART ATTACK:

Heart attacks always start with severe and sudden chest pain, but sometimes in diabetic patients, it can also start gradually, and go to severe in several hours. Heart attack symptoms can vary in different cases, and if a patient has had previous heart attack history, symptoms may be changed over another patient.

Symptoms can fluctuate also between females and males, but in both cases, the common symptom of attack is chest pain. Even, women face more different symptoms than other men, who experience other typical symptoms, especially breathlessness, vomiting, nausea, and jaw pain or backache. 

SYMPTOMS OF CARDIAC ARREST:

Cardiac arrests always happen in those people, who didn’t know about their heart problems. A person who facing cardiac arrest suddenly collapses and loses consciousness. They can stop breathing and experience shortness of breath.

I have customized the symptoms of both heart attacks and cardiac arrest.

 

 

SYMPTOMS OF HEART ATTACK SYMPTOMS OF CARDIAC ARREST
Symptoms increase with time, but chest pain is the most common symptom. Symptoms can be increased with time not always associated with time
Chest pain usually happens in the left side and center of the chest Most patients feel dizziness
Discomfort or pain felt in both upper arms, shoulder, back, jaw, or upper abdomen Patient becomes breathlessness
Sometimes patients become breathless in physical activity or sometimes in a resting position Overall feel fatigued or weak, now associated with posture
Extreme sweating and restlessness Vomiting and nausea
Feeling tiredness more in females Chest pain with feel palpitation
Sudden feel dizziness Sudden difficulty in breathing
Arrhythmia happens as ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia Sudden unconsciousness and collapse

CAUSES OF HEART ATTACK AND CARDIAC ARREST:

The causes of cardiac arrest and heart attacks are relatively different. Most of the people, who have experienced an attack, know very well that they were at higher risk. And the other side, cardiac arrests, mostly happen in those people you didn’t knowledge about their cardiac problems.

 

CAUSES OF HEART ATTACK:

The main cause of heart attack is CHD (coronary heart disease), which is related to deoxygenated blood. Some patients know, that they are at high risk because they are previously facing a history of a heart attack. Some other risk factors are given below,

  • Lack of exercise
  • Unhealthy food
  • Smoking
  • Hypocholesteremia
  • Diabetic
  • Hypertension
  • Heavyweight patient

CAUSES OF CARDIAC ARREST:

The main cause of cardiac arrest due to deoxygenated blood or arrhythmia including CHD (coronary heart disease), some other risk factors are given below,

Hereditary (congenital) heart disease

  • Enlarged heart
  • Irregular heart valves
  • Strong family history of heart diseases
  • Smoking patient
  • History of previous heart attack
  • Electrical impulsive problems

 DIAGNOSTIC TIPS FOR HEART ATTACK AND CARDIAC   ARREST:

A cardiologist can diagnose the variance between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack by performing special lab tests. 

DIAGNOSIS OF HEART ATTACK:

Cardiologists diagnose attacks by examining a physical examination and offering an electrogram to rule out the electrical impulses of the heart.

Or cardiologist may also offer cardiac catheterization to diagnose the validity, power, and strength of the heart. 

DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIAC ARREST:

A cardiac arrest is explained by the heart working stopped. If an emergency doctor will be successful to revert the patient’s heart and start blood circulation again, so they have to perform tests to diagnose the cause of cardiac arrest which include an echocardiogram, a chest x-ray, and some important blood tests to examine the further signs of the heart.

 

TREATMENT OF HEART ATTACK AND CARDIAC ARREST:

TREATMENT OF HEART ATTACK:

If the patient has severe chest pain and the doctor diagnosed that he is suffering from a heart attack, first of all, he will prescribe ACS protocol with emergency treatment which include

  •  Oxygen inhalation
  • Tab angered
  • Tab clopidogrel
  • Tab aspirin
  • Inj. heparin
  • Inj. kinz with Metoclopramide

Another symptomatic treatment doctor may advise him, such as nitroglycerin, beta-blockers, or pain killer. After all emergency treatment doctor decide to shift the patient for

  • Angioplasty
  • Heart valve surgery
  • Bypass surgery CABG
  • Pacemaker placement
  • Or heart transplantation

TREATMENT OF CARDIAC ARREST:

Cardiac arrest treatment most of the time starts with CPR or shock given by a defibrillator if the patient reverts to the shocking condition, then the doctor has started supportive treatment as per need according to the patient’s condition or symptoms which includes

  • Emergency medication
  • Surgery of any bypass