A 31-year-old member asked:
What is the difference between cardiac arrest and mi?
3 doctor answers • 6 doctors weighed in
Dr. Carlo Hatemanswered
Pulmonary Critical Care 27 years experience
Life or death: Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops, if not immediately reversed, it's death. Myocardial infarction is when the blood supply to part of the heart is interrupted, leading to serious damage to the heart. The damage can be so severe that it leads to cardiac arrest.
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Dr. Sue Ferrantianswered
Internal Medicine 31 years experience
Degree...: Mi is when the heart muscle is not getting the blood supply it needs. The part of the heart not receiving enough blood is at risk to die. Cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating entirely. One of the causes of cardiac arrest is mi or myocardial infarction. Both are life-threatening and require an immediate 911 call.
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Dr. Rodolfo Pascualanswered
Pulmonary Critical Care 29 years experience
Arrest requires CPR: Myocardial infarction (mi) occurs when there is an obstruction of a blood vessel that supplies part of the heart and this leads to damage to the heart muscle. Mi might lead to death and can cause cardiac arrest if not treated but not always. Cardiac arrest means that the heart is no longer pumping blood, can be caused by a variety of things and always leads to death if not treated promptly.
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A 36-year-old member asked:
What is the difference between a mi and a cardiac arrest?
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Dr. Mark Sternanswered
Cardiology 48 years experience
Damage vs stopping: In an mi heart muscle is damaged
in a cardiac arrest the heart stops beating.
Either one can cause the other.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
What is the difference between having asystole and having a cardiac arrest?
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Dr. William Walshanswered
Addiction Medicine 19 years experience
Asystole is the end: Asystole, or a heart with no electrical activity, is how we all end up at death. A cardiac arrest can start there, but usually starts with a rapid rhythm that has low or no output or a noncontractile rhythm (ventricular fibrillation). These rhythms are often reversible, asystole is usually simply death.
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A 36-year-old member asked:
What's difference between cardiac arrest and asystole?
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Dr. Steven Ajlunianswered
Cardiology 37 years experience
Sudden cardiac death: Asystole is one form of cardiac arrest (sudden cardiac death), but others include dangerous ventricular arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
Can you tell me about the difference between cardiac arrest and fits?
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Dr. Calvin Weisbergeranswered
53 years experience
Cardiac arrest: Cardiac arrest is generally a severe rhythm disturbance of the heart which causes loss of mechanical activity. Fits is a term for seizures. Seizures are neurologic(brain)events and don't necessarily have any heart relationship.
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A 33-year-old member asked:
What is the difference between cardiac arrest and a stroke?
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Dr. Frederick Tibayananswered
Thoracic Surgery 25 years experience
Heart and brain: A cardiac arrest happens when there is a rhythm or pumping problem with the heart so bad that there is essentially not enough blood flow to support life. Ma stroke happens when there is not enough oxygen delivery to the brain (or spinal cord), and the neurons (brain cells) die.
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