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What are symptoms or signs of cardiac arrest?

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Heart disease: A cardiac arrest patient will rapidly lose consciousness, no pulse, no audible heart tones, no response to stimuli, the patient will also rapidly lose spontaneous respiration.

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Answered 8/27/2013

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

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Collapse: If standing or sitting fall down. If lying down, pulseless and a few gasps. If you see, call 911' do basic life assessment and chest compressions.

Answered 12/10/2013

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