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Why would someone become incontinent shortly before going into cardiac arrest?

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Cardiac arrest: Incontinence pre arrest suggests the voluntary and involuntary nervous systems are malfunctioning from drop in perfusion.

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

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Probably: Probably going into heart block, shock, brain ischemia, syncope, fall, incontinence, arrest all in a continuum.

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