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Both her and George Michael died of heart attack. With all technology/medicine advance it's incredible how many people heart disease still kills in 2016. May
by matco11 10y ago
Both her and George Michael died of heart attack.
With all technology/medicine advance it's incredible how many people heart disease still kills in 2016.
May Carrie and George Rest In Peace.
- cromulent 10y agoI noticed that George Michael died of heart failure. As far as I understand it, this is a generic term for death. Perhaps the actual cause will be revealed at some point when it is more appropriate.
- chillydawg 10y agoSeems quite likely it was drugs or suicide.
- jonwachob91 10y ago> heart failure. As far as I understand it, this is a generic term for death It's not. The generic term for death is death. Heart Failure is a real condition. A heart attack could be compared to a circuit overloading, while heart failure can be compared to lose of power.
- drbawb 10y agoNah, my grandpa and mom both suffered from heart failure and lived to tell the tale. My grandpa went on to live another 7 years after his heart failure to the age of 79. (Which I find fairly remarkable honestly.) Meanwhile my mom is still kickin. My understanding is a heart attack refers specifically to a blockage in the heart, some combination of narrowing arteries, a blood clot, etc. Heart failure just refers to an inefficiency of the heart to pump blood. It's caused more by things like arrhythmias, issues w/ blood pressure, etc. It seemed to me that the heart attack was the more serious of the two, as I believe it's more closely linked to tissue death. As I understood it: the heart attack weakened my grandfather's heart and left him more vulnerable to heart failure.
- elastic_church 10y agoHeart Failure, Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attack, etc All colloquially used as synonyms. All different. I couldn't tell you which is which. Seems like its different between areas of the medical field as well. So thats problem number 1.
- johansch 10y agoWe all have a bunch of organs which are single-point-of-failures to our lives. It's crazy, I know.
- soneil 10y agoTechnology's all very nice, but she died* during a long-haul flight. That severely limits options. *I hold the theory she's been braindead since then, and the family made a decision today. It sounds cold, but it also means she hasn't been suffering for four days.
- dreamcompiler 10y agoProbably right. She suffered what medical professionals call a "witnessed arrest" and while the chances of survival are slightly greater than "unwitnessed arrest" (no bystanders; 100% fatal), the odds are only slightly higher. To survive, she would have needed exquisite CPR with no-pause compressions, followed by AED as quickly as possible. Any pauses in CPR would most likely result in brain death.
- mikeryan 10y agoThe heart attack happened about 15 minutes before the flight landed and CPR was started virtually immediately by a medic on the flight with a medical crew at the gate when it landed. I'm sure the flight didn't help anything but from the timing it seems like it wasn't as big a factor as it could have been.
- chillydawg 10y agoIt only takes a few extra seconds to go from recoverable to unrecoverable. Human life is a delicate thing.
- agumonkey 10y agoThere is artificial oxygen carrier based on some close hemoglobyn molecule developped right now. That could help as a temporary solution while someone is applying compression to circulate oxygen rich blood and avoid brain damaging hypoxia.
- MicroBerto 10y ago> heart disease You mean "partying our faces off for decades on end"? Unfortunately no, we don't have a cure to fix a generally wrecked body. Drugs are indeed bad, at least to the extent that this generation of stars used them.