Popularly known as the cardiopulmonary arrest, Cardiac Arrest is the stoppage of the normal flow of the blood in the body because of the inability of the heart to contract effectively and efficiently.
Hundreds of thousands lives were already claimed by these incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in the United States of America for every year.
It is believed that for every minute, an incidence of SCA claim a life.
And when this SCA occurs, the change of survival is high as long as proper emergency medical procedure is initiated within the first minutes immediately of its occurrence.
To further expand the public's understanding on the cardiac arrest, several medical associations initiated classifications of this for us to know what the appropriate immediate treatment is.
There are several ways in categorizing cardiac arrest or heart failure, depending on the intensity of the attack perhaps, these variables in classifications include:
Hundreds of thousands lives were already claimed by these incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in the United States of America for every year.
It is believed that for every minute, an incidence of SCA claim a life.
And when this SCA occurs, the change of survival is high as long as proper emergency medical procedure is initiated within the first minutes immediately of its occurrence.
To further expand the public's understanding on the cardiac arrest, several medical associations initiated classifications of this for us to know what the appropriate immediate treatment is.
There are several ways in categorizing cardiac arrest or heart failure, depending on the intensity of the attack perhaps, these variables in classifications include:
- Which side of the heart is involved?
- Medical practitioners and experts use to categorize the level or type of cardiac arrest or heart failure bases on which side of the heart is malfunctioning.
It is whether failure on the left part of the heart or failure at the right part of the heart. - What causes the abnormality of the heart's function?
- Also, heart failure and cardiac arrest can be classified based on the source of its failure to function.
According to the medical experts, it is whether the defect is because of the contraction or relaxation of the heart.
This is to determine whether the cardiac arrest is a systolic dysfunction or a diastolic dysfunction. - Is it backward or forward failure?
- This is to determine whether the irregularity is primarily due to increased venous pressure behind or back of the heart or it is failure to supply ample arterial perfusion in front of the heart.
- What is the level of output of the heart?
- Lastly, the heart failure or SCA can also be categorizes whether it is a low-output heart failure or a high-output heart failure.
This is to distinguish if the heart failure or the heart malfunction is because of low cardiac output with high systemic vascular resistance or because of high cardiac output with low vascular resistance.