Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness by AED Authority.
According to some reports more than 350,000 deaths occur each year from Sudden Cardiac arrest and losing your loved ones is not a good thing. To decrease the deaths is important to understand what Sudden Cardiac Arrest is, what are the warning signs, and how to respond to an SCA event. What is Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA)? Sudden Cardiac Arrest is an electrical problem, sometimes people often use the term Heart Attack interchangeably with SCA but these both are different things. SCA happens when there is an electrical malfunction sending the heart into the state of fibrillation. Usually the heart uses electrical impulses that regulate rhythm and cause the heart to beat. SCA occurs suddenly and oftentimes without warning. When heart-pumping action is disrupted, the heart cannot pump blood to the brains, lungs, and other organs of the body. So due to this situation, a person loses consciousness and has no pulse. it is so sudden that death occurs within a minute if the person doesn't g...