How You Can Make A Difference With the Right CPR Knowledge
When cardiac arrest happens, the heart stops pumping blood. Permanent brain damage happens after 4 minutes without oxygen, and death can happen 4-6 minutes afterward. Every second matter when someone collapses from a cardiac arrest. Knowing what’s happening around you means you can react faster, and may be able to save a precious life. There’s difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest. We call it a heart attack when one of the coronary arteries that supply the heart becomes obstructed. The heart muscle is deprived of its essential blood supply, and if left unattended, will start to die as it’s not acquiring sufficient oxygen. This augments the odds of the sufferer experiencing cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest is when a person’s heart stops pounding, and they stop breathing or are only wheezing. A person with cardiac arrest will collapse, stop breathing & have no pulse. This is the right time to administer CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). However, the 1 s...