Probably time to agree on what "heart attack" means. My Dad's heart stopped and he was kept alive by 45 minutes of CPR by burly firefighters - did he have a he

Probably time to agree on what "heart attack" means. My Dad's heart stopped and he was kept alive by 45 minutes of CPR by burly firefighters - did he have a heart attack? Nope. His heart's pacemaker cells went on the fritz, but it wasn't a myocardial infarction. A "heart attack" is a myocardial infarction, but many other bad things can happen to your heart.