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Movies give a very unrealistic example of chance of survival after heart attacks or cardiac arrest. People are likely to survive one, but not the other. You wo
by DanBC 6y ago
Movies give a very unrealistic example of chance of survival after heart attacks or cardiac arrest.
People are likely to survive one, but not the other. You wouldn't know that from film where almost everyone survives.
- Noumenon72 6y agoCould you specify which one they survive, possibly using "former" and "latter"?
- robbiep 6y agoA ‘heart attack’ is an episode of myocardial ischaemia (restricted blood supply to the heart) usually through a blockage of an artery. Angina is a pain associated with myocardial ischaemia of a usually temporary nature. A cardiac arrest is the stoppage of the heart. Lots of people survive the first (apart for the 250,000 Americans for whom the first presentation of heart disease is sudden cardiac death), not so many survive the latter