{"id":7440,"date":"2022-02-09T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2024-06-10T05:03:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:03:12","slug":"sudden-cardiac-arrest-prompt-response-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/heart-health\/sudden-cardiac-arrest-prompt-response-saves-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Cardiac Arrest &#8211; Prompt Response Saves Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"toc\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"color: #c01c7b;\">Table of Content<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/heart-health\/sudden-cardiac-arrest-prompt-response-saves-lives#q1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong><em>Heart Attack \u2013 Timely Assistance<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/heart-health\/sudden-cardiac-arrest-prompt-response-saves-lives#q2\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong><em>Act quickly when<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/heart-health\/sudden-cardiac-arrest-prompt-response-saves-lives#q3\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><strong><em>What to do<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"caps\"><strong>Survival rates can double or triple if more people know How to act in the event of a Sudden Cardiac arrest!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Knowledge is power &#8211; to save lives!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"q1\"><strong>Heart Attack &#8211; Timely Assistance\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A Sudden Cardiac Arrest occurs when there is a sudden loss of heart function, leading to loss of consciousness and even death. It is caused by a problem in the electrical system of the heart, which stops the pumping of blood to the body and the brain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Understanding Sudden Cardiac Arrest | Kauvery Hospital\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VI8uhbhT6-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sudden Cardiac Arrest often strikes without warning and can happen to anyone. If you have any of the risk factors listed below, it&#8217;s crucial to get a cardiac check-up done periodically. <strong>Heart doctors, including those in our Salem, Trichy, Hosur, Tirunelveli and Chennai branches<\/strong>, emphasize the importance of regular monitoring to help prevent such incidents.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A personal\/family history of heart disease<\/li>\n<li>A smoking habit<\/li>\n<li>High blood pressure<\/li>\n<li>High cholesterol<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/heart-health\/obesity-and-heart-disease\/\">Obesity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/Centers-of-Excellence-and-Specialties\/Diabetology\">Diabetes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sedentary lifestyle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"also-read\">Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/heart-health\/the-golden-hour-why-the-first-hour-is-the-most-important-after-a-heart-attack\/\">The Golden Hour: Why the First Hour is the Most Important after a Heart Attack<\/a><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"q2\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7441 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/call-ambulance-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Call for an ambulance\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Act quickly when:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A person suddenly collapses<\/li>\n<li>There is no pulse<\/li>\n<li>There is no breathing<\/li>\n<li>Loss of consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Chest pain and palpitations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"q3\"><strong>What to do: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7443 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/perform-cpr-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Perform CPR immediately \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Call for an ambulance<\/li>\n<li>Perform CPR immediately<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai \u2013 044 4000 6000 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Cantonment \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Heartcity \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Tennur \u2013 0431 4022555 \u2022 Maa Kauvery Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Kauvery Cancer Institute, Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Hosur \u2013 04344 272727 \u2022 Salem \u2013 0427 2677777 \u2022 Tirunelveli &#8211; 0462 4006000 \u2022 Bengaluru &#8211; 080 6801 6801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Content Heart Attack \u2013 Timely Assistance Act quickly when What to do Survival rates can double or triple if more people know How to act in the event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heart-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10645,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions\/10645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}