Cardiac Arrest

Definition: Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest

Noun

1. Absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death.

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Health

Medicine

Public Administration

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Synonyms: Cardiac Arrest

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Crosswords: Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac Arrest (1980)

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Books

• Cardiac Arrest (reference)

• Cardiac Arrest (Charter) (reference)

• Cardiac Arrest and Cpr: Assessment, Planning, and Intervention (reference)

• Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (reference)

• Code Blue: Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (Blue Book Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cardiac Arrest (reference)

• A Shock to the Heart: Treatment of Cardiac Arrest (reference)

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Music

• Cardiac Arrest (reference)

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Health

This cardiac arrest is brought on by an abnormal heartbeat. (references)

Cocaine-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizures followed by respiratory arrest. (references)

Heart failure patients also have an increased risk of sudden death, or cardiac arrest, caused by an irregular heartbeat. (references)

Human Rights

Mauritius

Kaya's death sparked 3 days of rioting during which police shot and killed three protesters, one police officer died of cardiac arrest, and shops, homes, and churches were burned and looted, resulting in an estimated $50 million (1,250 million rupees) in damages. (references)

Switzerland

The Bern forensic institute found that his death from cardiac arrest was not the sole result of the beating by police officers but rather a combination of several factors, including stress, and police use of sedatives, tear gas, other chemicals used during Gomec's apprehension, and chronic heart disease. (references)

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Czech

srdeèní zástava. (various references)

Danish

hjertestop (asystole, circulatory arrest), hjertestilstand. (various references)

Dutch

Herroepelijke of onherroepelijke beëindiging van de hartwerking, hartstilstand. (various references)

Finnish

sydänpysähdys. (various references)

French

arrêt du c�"ur, arrêt cardiaque. (various references)

German

Herzstillstand. (various references)

Greek 

καρδιακή ανακοπή,ανακοπή καρδιάς. (various references)

Italian

arresto cardiaco. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

心停止 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"ていし. (various references)

Pig Latin

ardiaccay arrestay

Portuguese

paragem cardíaca. (various references)

Spanish

paro cardíaco. (various references)

Swedish

hjärtstillestånd. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: accredits, cercarias, radicates, ricercars.

-5 letters: accredit, acridest, airdates, arcadias, cadaster, cadastre, cardcase, cardiacs, carriers, cercaria, dataries, erratics, radiates, radicate, ricercar, sacraria, scarrier, starrier, tarriers, terraria.