Cardiac-arrest definition

Sudden cessation of heartbeat and cardiac function, resulting in the loss of effective circulation.
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Personnel who deal with cardiac arrests at sports events.

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The complete failure of the heart to pump blood.
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Sudden cessation of heartbeat and cardiac function, resulting in the loss of effective circulation.
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Personnel who deal with cardiac arrests at sports events.

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(cardiology, pathology) Sudden and complete cessation of the heartbeat resulting in the loss of effective circulation of the blood.
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Noun

Singular:
cardiac-arrest
Plural:
cardiac-arrests

Cardiac-arrest Sentence Examples

  • Will giving electric shocks to a patient who is not in cardiac arrest be more harmful than just waiting for the professionals to arrive?

  • Thirty seconds after the injection of suxamethonium, the patient developed a bradycardia and suffered cardiac arrest.

  • The most common form of sudden cardiac arrest is due to ventricular fibrillation - a rapid, chaotic, lethal rhythm of the heart.

  • In this case, birds who do not have a cardiac arrest at stunning will still be alive when they enter the scalding tank.

  • No one is really sure why she had to fly to South America for such a simple procedure, but she did and ended up going into cardiac arrest.

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