WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cardiac arrest is defined as a sudden stop in heart function. Essentially, the pumping function of the heart is compromised, oftentimes due to a dangerous ...

Officers, doctors and the young boy’s father say without that quick thinking, this rare medical emergency could have ended in ...

Increasingly, sudden cardiac arrest is affecting people under 40, including students, athletes, professionals and homemakers ...

A 21-year-old student who was sitting at home watching TV and eating hash browns suddenly went into cardiac arrest - but was ...

A pregnant Ohio woman gave birth at 27 weeks after going into cardiac arrest while chasing her dog on July 1. She recently ...

Stephen Bloomer, a UPS driver for more than 15 years, went into cardiac arrest during a delivery at a business in Chester ...

Well, it's been 10 weeks since my heart attack and cardiac arrest. I'm okay now. I'm one lucky guy. The first 36 hours were ...

Cardiac arrest is rare among people under age 35 and the causes aren't always immediately clear. More than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen every year in the United States, according ...

While rare, sudden cardiac arrests are a leading cause of death for young athletes. According to a Canadian study published in March, men are over 10 times more likely to experience a sports-related ...

“Cardiac arrest may be reversed if CPR is performed and a defibrillator shocks the heart and restores a normal heart rhythm within a few minutes,” the American Heart Association says.

The chance of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest is as low as 10% without cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, Dadlani said. But those odds can get up to 60% using effective chest compressions ...

Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops due to a failure in its electrical system More than half of men who had cardiac arrests had symptoms up to a month beforehand Symptoms included chest ...