Tribunnews.com Reporter, Vincentius Jyestha
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – In terms of tree, often used the term cardiac arrest. But does the term have a similar meaning to heart failure? What about a heart attack?
It turns out that all three are different terms and have different meanings. This was confirmed by an explanation from the member of the Information Communications Department, the Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Cardiovascular Specialist Doctors Association (PP Perki) dr. Vito Damay.
Dr. Vito explained cardiac arrest is a condition when the heart stops pumping normally. Cardiac arrest can also be caused by several things.
“The heart’s function is to pump blood, so he has a relaxation phase and then continues to pump, and so on. Now, cardiac arrest can be caused by several things, for example due to poisoning, pneumonia, severe infections and heart attacks,” said dr. Vito, during a special interview with the Director of News Tribun Network Febby Mahendra Putra and News Manager Tribun Network Rachmat Hidayat, Monday (9/8/2021).
He explained that a heart attack would lead to cardiac arrest. Which can then be called the patient has died.
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“The difference between cardiac arrest and heart attack is that a heart attack is a blockage of the blood vessels that feed the heart so that there is no supply. The result of a heart attack is cardiac arrest,” explained dr. Vito.
“You could say cardiac arrest is the final phase of life. Two different things between cardiac arrest and heart attack,” he added.
Then what is meant by heart failure? dr. Vito revealed heart failure often also referred to as heart failure.
“Heart failure that should function to pump and relax. The language is easy when I say weak heart,” he said.
The position of heart failure itself is between a heart attack and cardiac arrest. He said heart failure can occur in people who have survived a heart attack.
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“People who have a heart attack can survive, but with the consequence that part of their heart can be weak. Like a rice field when there is no water flow, it will grow infertile. If this heart can still live, even if only partially,” explained dr. Vito.
“It’s like if we have a four-diesel car engine, but only two live, half of them don’t. While the road must be the same, now it will definitely lose to a car that is full and still functioning. That’s called a weak heart, so heart failure can lead to cardiac arrest later in life,” he said.
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