What are the signs before sudden death? How to race against time?

The World Health Organization defines sudden death as "the sudden death of a healthy or seemingly healthy patient due to natural causes within an unexpectedly short period of time." There is no fixed rule as to how short this so-called short period of time is. Most sudden deaths occur within 6 hours.

Most sudden deaths occur outside hospitals, which means that the first people who have the opportunity to rescue patients are often non-professionals. Unfortunately, the average rescue success rate for sudden death is less than 1% in China. However, considering the huge number of sudden death patients in China every year, even if the rescue success rate is only 1%, it means that 18,000 patients have a chance of survival.

0 1 Warning symptoms before sudden death

Under normal circumstances, in the process from fatigue to sudden death, the body will send out some "distress messages". We must seize this signal and make timely adjustments.

The three most common manifestations before sudden death are:

1. Short-term angina pectoris, chest tightness (may last 3-5 minutes), and a sense of oppression;

2. Accompanied by palpitations, fatigue, dizziness, or sudden hypotension;

3. A small number of patients may also experience unexplained toothache, arm pain, sore throat, etc. The duration varies from person to person, and may be long or short, but generally not too long.

It is recommended that people at high risk of sudden death, such as those who stay up late for a long time, overdraw their bodies, are under great pressure in life, sit for a long time, smoke and drink, should be alert to such symptoms.

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The following 3 types of people must attract attention↓↓↓

1. For those with a family history of sudden death, comprehensive screening for heart disease is recommended.

2. Suffering from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

3. Long-term unhealthy lifestyle, such as smoking, heavy drinking, overwork, obesity, mental stress, emotional excitement, overeating, depression, etc.

0 2 Sudden death is common, learn this first aid method

If there is a sudden illness and the patient may die suddenly, there are two things the people around can do: one is to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation measures for the patient whose respiratory or cardiac arrest occurs; the other is to call 120 and send the patient to the hospital for emergency treatment in time.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation may be effective for many emergencies that may lead to sudden death, such as myocardial infarction, malignant arrhythmia, cerebral hemorrhage, and even cardiac arrest caused by pulmonary embolism. Cardiopulmonary compression is not complicated, and ordinary people can master it after a certain amount of training. Special emphasis should be placed on the timeliness of rescue. The success rate of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is closely related to the time when cardiopulmonary resuscitation is started.

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If CPR is started within 4 minutes, the success rate can reach 50%;

If started within 4-6 minutes, its success rate drops to 10%;

If cardiopulmonary resuscitation is started more than 6 minutes later, brain cells have begun to suffer irreversible damage and the success rate is only 4% or even lower.

Therefore, if we encounter a patient with cardiac arrest, what we should do is to perform CPR on the patient as soon as possible, and ask people around us to help call 120. We should never blindly call relatives and friends and waste precious treatment time.

03How to protect a “ fragile ” heart ?

The easiest way to protect your heart is to start with the details of your life, especially the following points:

1. Develop good living habits

This is the most basic way to protect the heart. Try to maintain good work and rest habits, avoid staying up late, and pay attention to the combination of work and rest; stay away from tobacco and alcohol, and pay more attention to diet, reducing the intake of high-salt and high-fat foods; at the same time, control blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipids and other indicators to avoid increasing the burden on the heart and causing heart damage.

2. Try to maintain a peaceful state of mind

Being in a state of tension such as high pressure, anxiety, depression, and repression for a long time can also easily lead to abnormal heartbeat. We should learn to regulate our emotions, stay calm when encountering things, avoid large fluctuations in emotions, and reduce the risk of sudden death.

3. Actively participate in exercise

Long-term proper exercise is very helpful to improve cardiopulmonary function. Generally speaking, the scientific exercise frequency is 3 to 5 times a week, 30 to 60 minutes each time (excluding warm-up and post-exercise finishing exercises).

It is important to control your heart rate when exercising. I recommend an internationally accepted formula: exercise heart rate = 170 - age. You can calculate it according to your own situation.

Source: Chongqing Tianji Network Co., Ltd.

This article is compiled from Family Doctor, CCTV Life Circle, 39 Health Network, Weibo

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