This chest tightness can change from day to day, and/or from moment to moment. All of the above combinations and variations are common. This type of chest tightness is commonly misconstrued as heart problems or the signs of a heart attack.
Cardiac arrest, also known as cardiopulmonary arrest or circulatory arrest, is a sudden stop in effective blood circulation due to the failure of the heart to contract effectively or at all. Medical personnel may refer to an unexpected cardiac arrest as a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).
About 360,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are reported each year in the USA, the heart group says. Cardiac arrest is the ultimate heart problem, says the study's senior author, Sumeet Chugh, a cardiologist and associate director for genomic cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles. It's electrical chaos.