In 2001 I suffered a massive MI and a prolonged cardiac arrest. It was some 45 mins before they got a regular sustained rhythmn again, I was "defibrillated" several times and they even went beyond protocol to save me. Fortunately for me they did. However, ever since then I have felt different. My memory which used to be a particular strength of mine was weaker, and my ability to multitask almost went overnight. I often forget peoples names or the next word that I want to say.
I'm thinking cardiac arrest isn't the actual term they used? Cardiac arrest is a heart attack. But in general, it sounds like you had yourself checked out and they couldn't find any heart health issues? Are you sure it's your blood vessels? Why do you think that? Muscles (and we have gazillions, even super tiny little one) twitching is very common. That can be due to fatigue, anxiety or even too much caffeine.
t know if I would go so far as to say you are going into cardiac arrest the fact that you are sensing a long pause of some sort needs to be investigated. Please visit your doctor to get reevaluated. If you do not have any other troubling symptoms that may be a good sign you have nothing to worry about but please do go get checked out, a doctor really needs to make that call. Take care and keep us posted on how you are doing.
Usually presence of pupillary reflexes and spontaneous eye opening in patients after cardiac arrest is considered to be a good prognostic factor in context with brain injury. Extensor, flexor responses, conjugate gaze if present, we can except a favourable outcome in the patient.
But outcome of a patient after surviving cardiac arrest is very individual. Consult a neurologist for further assistance.
All the best.
Now, a leading doctor at this hospital claims that there is no way a head trauma like the one experienced, or any for that matter, could cause the victim to enter cardiac arrest. The view is that this victim had to have had entered cardiac arrest possibly while running or at some point along the way, but NOT from the actual head trauma. Maybe hereditary condition (but unbeknownst to individual).
s but maybe only 10% of what I used to have, but the big benefit is I no longer spend my life in fear of cardiac arrest, and instead of spending my days in fear, I am enjoying my life. Will my heart rythm problems cause cardiac arrest, well maybe, but I know i have done all I can for my health, and have decided to drop the "worry" part and life is now a whole lot more pleasant.
The only real exceptions would be a family history of Brugada Syndrome (confirmed by genetic testing and history of cardiac arrest in young family members) and/or his EKG showing something close to the Brugada sign.
Ajmaline is considered the best sodium channel blocker to be used in a drug challenge test that may provoke the Brugada sign in patients where it may be "concealed" on a baseline EKG.
I am 23 I have had random intense chest pain for about 3 years, possibly variant angina, I went into cardiac arrest in October and then acute respiratory failure and was on life support, my blood pressure is generally around 96-105/48-66 (and always has run low/normal), and my pulse rarely dips below 100, this is new in the past couple of years about since the chest pain started, the range is about 96-133 beats/min.
She felt a little dizzy and went to the ER.. The nurse went to get a bed pan and my Mom had a sudden cardiac arrest, her heart stopped. They started life saving measuresand it took 20 minutes to get her back. They said all that time she suffered severe brain damage from lack of oxygen.She coded in the ER. I blame myself and I blame the ddoctors for not doing enough. I am I'm in my 20s and my last living relative my grandpa passed away.I don't know my Dad.
Even though, generally, patients with spasm have similar outcomes compared to the normal controls, I think you are a bit different bacuse of the cardiac arrest. I think your doctors have to be very aggressive in terms of cotrolling your symptoms. You should be on calcium channel blockers and nitrates at maximal doses until your symptoms are controlled.
But my left vendricle ejection fraction in October 2009 after the cardiac arrest event was about 20% and my follow-up echo in 5 weeks (done in November 2009) also showed the ejection fraction as only about 20% (no post procedure improvement). Also there is moderate to severe leak in the mitral valve. I used to smoke about 15 cigarettes a day till October 2009 but now I have fully quit smoking. I am taking my medicines and exercising regularly (about 45 minutes aerobic every day).
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