Cardiac Arrest

Key Stage 4

A Cardiac Arrest is when muscles in the heart are starved of Oxygen and die.

A cardiac arrest can cause the heart to stop beating.

A cardiac arrest is usually caused by a blocked coronary artery which prevents Oxygen getting to a muscle in the heart.

Once a cardiac arrest happens the muscle dies and can never be recovered.

Cardiac arrests are often caused by Coronary Heart Disease and blod clots (usually a combination of both).