Comments on: First Aid in Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) https://healthhype.com/sudden-cardiac-death-scd.html Current Health Articles on Symptoms, Diseases and Treatment Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Heart Disease Types and Symptoms; Phisiology, Pictures, Video | Current Health Articles 2009 https://healthhype.com/sudden-cardiac-death-scd.html#comment-17003 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:56:14 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/sudden-cardiac-death-scd.html#comment-17003 […] Sudden cardiac death is an unexpected death from a heart disorder occurring within an hour after symptoms onset in a person in whom no previously life threatening heart condition was diagnosed. Main underlying causes include coronary heart disease, previous heart attack or heart surgery, cocaine or tricyclic antidepressants abuse, digoxin, anti-arrhythmic medications and congenital birth defects. […]

]]> By: Jan Modric https://healthhype.com/sudden-cardiac-death-scd.html#comment-7033 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:38:42 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/sudden-cardiac-death-scd.html#comment-7033 Automatic external defibrilators are designed not to deliver electric shock to a person with a normal heart rhythm, or rhythm other than fibrillation with a 99% safety, according to GEMS (see edited. Info added in article.

Comment appreciated.

]]> By: Suz https://healthhype.com/sudden-cardiac-death-scd.html#comment-7025 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:20:26 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/sudden-cardiac-death-scd.html#comment-7025 “Misuse of a defibrillator on or by a healthy person cannot cause this person’s death but can cause burns or one-time/recurrent arrhythmia.”

This is not entirely correct. Misuse of a defibrillator on a healthy person CAN cause death – by causing the same types of arrhythmias that defibrillators are supposed to treat. In other words if someone healthy is directly defibrillated they can go into cardiac arrest. This IS a lethal condition unless they receive prompt repeat defibrillation and appropriate advanced cardiac life support.

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