Cardiac arrest just means your heart stopped beating, which is pretty much the textbook definition of death.
That’s basically like saying they’re dead because they died.
The interesting thing we want to know is what caused the cardiac arrest. Any time you see “cardiac arrest” in an article, it means that they either don’t know or don’t want to say the cause of death.
A heart attack can cause cardiac arrest, so could an overdose, or falling and hitting your head, or getting shot in the face.
That, or numerous other health problems, his body was pretty much wrecked from years of wrestling and such even without the steroids, he’s had drug and alcohol issues, and the dude was in his 70s, it’s not exactly unheard of for even relatively healthy people his age to just kind of keel over.
I don’t think there’s anything particularly interesting to his death, he was an unhealthy old guy, it’s not in the least bit surprising that he died. But “cardiac arrest” in articles is a personal pet peeve of mine. It says absolutely nothing about the cause of death, and people who don’t understand what it means tend to automatically think “oh, he had a heart attack” when that’s often not the case. It tells you basically nothing that a headline of something like “Joe Schmo, famous taxidermist, dead at 69” hasn’t already told you, and can be kind of misleading.
I work in 911 dispatch, the codes and policies and such used by different agencies will vary from one agency to another, I’ve entered calls for a “cardiac arrest” for countless different causes
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. Cardiac Arrest is just your heart stopped beating. Generally something else causes that. It’s silly but I always find it frustrating when they say that too.
most likely a Heart attack, given his age, and roid use. and cardiac arrest, mos tpeople assume its a heart attack, which is the most common cause of it.
If you don’t mind getting into the weeds here a bit
A “heart attack” is normally understood to be a myocardial infarction, where blood flow in the coronary arteries is blocked leading to damage to the heart muscle.
And the most common cause of cardiac arrest is arrhythmia, and most specifically ventricular fibrilation (v-fib)
Now that damage to the heart from a heart attack can and frequently does cause v-fib and other arrhythmias, which can lead to a cardiac arrest, either relatively immediately, or further down the line from that heart attack.
But there’s a whole host of other conditions, risk factors, and just plain bad luck that can also cause them.
Picking apart what percent of those arrhythmias are attributable to a heart attack vs those that were caused by other issues isn’t something that I’m willing and maybe not even able to do as a layperson, so I won’t begin to speculate on that.
But that’s kind of the root of my issue here. A lot of people just kind of casually lump all sorts of heart issues together into the same basket. We all have hearts beating away in our chests, and they’re pretty damn important if you want to go on living, so it’s best if we all have some decent level of understanding of what these terms mean and how to treat, manage, recognize, and avoid these issues, and I think that just kind of casually throwing terms around like heart attack, heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, etc. like they’re interchangeable does a lot of harm to people being able to properly understand what’s going on with this weird pumpy muscle thing in our chests.
Cardiac arrest just means your heart stopped beating, which is pretty much the textbook definition of death.
That’s basically like saying they’re dead because they died.
The interesting thing we want to know is what caused the cardiac arrest. Any time you see “cardiac arrest” in an article, it means that they either don’t know or don’t want to say the cause of death.
A heart attack can cause cardiac arrest, so could an overdose, or falling and hitting your head, or getting shot in the face.
Years of steroids.
That, or numerous other health problems, his body was pretty much wrecked from years of wrestling and such even without the steroids, he’s had drug and alcohol issues, and the dude was in his 70s, it’s not exactly unheard of for even relatively healthy people his age to just kind of keel over.
I don’t think there’s anything particularly interesting to his death, he was an unhealthy old guy, it’s not in the least bit surprising that he died. But “cardiac arrest” in articles is a personal pet peeve of mine. It says absolutely nothing about the cause of death, and people who don’t understand what it means tend to automatically think “oh, he had a heart attack” when that’s often not the case. It tells you basically nothing that a headline of something like “Joe Schmo, famous taxidermist, dead at 69” hasn’t already told you, and can be kind of misleading.
I work in 911 dispatch, the codes and policies and such used by different agencies will vary from one agency to another, I’ve entered calls for a “cardiac arrest” for countless different causes
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I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. Cardiac Arrest is just your heart stopped beating. Generally something else causes that. It’s silly but I always find it frustrating when they say that too.
If you’re at all familiar with this nazi fuck then the answer is pretty obvious; steroids and cocaine.
most likely a Heart attack, given his age, and roid use. and cardiac arrest, mos tpeople assume its a heart attack, which is the most common cause of it.
If you don’t mind getting into the weeds here a bit
A “heart attack” is normally understood to be a myocardial infarction, where blood flow in the coronary arteries is blocked leading to damage to the heart muscle.
And the most common cause of cardiac arrest is arrhythmia, and most specifically ventricular fibrilation (v-fib)
Now that damage to the heart from a heart attack can and frequently does cause v-fib and other arrhythmias, which can lead to a cardiac arrest, either relatively immediately, or further down the line from that heart attack.
But there’s a whole host of other conditions, risk factors, and just plain bad luck that can also cause them.
Picking apart what percent of those arrhythmias are attributable to a heart attack vs those that were caused by other issues isn’t something that I’m willing and maybe not even able to do as a layperson, so I won’t begin to speculate on that.
But that’s kind of the root of my issue here. A lot of people just kind of casually lump all sorts of heart issues together into the same basket. We all have hearts beating away in our chests, and they’re pretty damn important if you want to go on living, so it’s best if we all have some decent level of understanding of what these terms mean and how to treat, manage, recognize, and avoid these issues, and I think that just kind of casually throwing terms around like heart attack, heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, etc. like they’re interchangeable does a lot of harm to people being able to properly understand what’s going on with this weird pumpy muscle thing in our chests.