Nobody is safe from SCA or Sudden Cardiac Arrest. It can happen to anybody, anytime. It’s a sudden failure of the heart resulting in inadequate cerebral circulation. I don’t want to talk about how it happens or its technicalities but just to be in a safe side you can take preventive measures against it because if the patient with SCA isn’t treated in 4-6 minutes it may fatal even resulting sudden cardiac death. There are some risk factors that increase the chances of SCA. Some can be managed or controlled but some are out of our control.
Manageable risk factors:
- Stress
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Cigarette smoking
- Excess weight
- Drug or alcohol abuse
- High fat diet
- Sedentary lifestyle
Unmanageable risk factors:
- Diabetes
- Advancing age
- Congenital heart disorders
- High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Previous heart attack or diagnosis of coronary artery disease, heart disease or congestive heart failure
- Family history of arrhythmia, heart disease or Sudden Cardiac Arrest
- Low ejection fraction (EF), which is the percentage of blood pumped out of the heart with each beat as measured by an echocardiogram in your MD’s office
- Certain medications, which include prescriptions as well as over-the-counter drugs, like decongestants, diet supplements and herbal remedies
In some cases whereas, it can even occur spontaneously without any known risk factors too. So, you got to be always alert because as I’ve said earlier “It can happen to anybody, anytime”.
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