cardiac death
Fatal heart failure
Cardiac death is death resulting from the cessation of heartbeat and blood circulation, as distinguished from brain death.
The term appears in medical and legal contexts where the specific mechanism of death matters: The patient experienced sudden cardiac death during surgery.
Sudden cardiac death refers to unexpected death from cardiac causes, typically within an hour of symptom onset.
- heart attackBlocked blood to muscle
- suddenOccurring without prior notice
- flatlineShow no heartbeat
- flat lineAbsence of vital signs
- arrestSeize by law
heart stopped · resuscitation · CPR · chest compressions · do not resuscitate · defibrillator · coronary · arrhythmia · asystole · pulse · code blue · paddles · chest · pronounced dead · shock · fibrillation · infarct · ischemia
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
- End-of-Lifeadvance directive, DNR, do not resuscitate, hospice, life support
- life statusalive, dead, deceased, living, dying
cardiac deathROSC
Heart's spontaneous restart
revival · cardiac function · beating heart · circulation · heartbeat
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