Sudden cardiac arrest in a dream in Russia causes eight to sixteen deaths for every ten thousand people annually. Most people with cardiac arrest suffered from mental disorders (45%), asthma (16%), heart disease (11%), and gastritis (8%). In some patients (22%), sudden death was the first manifestation of the disease.
Patients who suffer from cardiac arrest in their sleep for several seconds are also worried about lack of vigor, headache in the morning, decreased performance, snoring, increased irritability, unbalanced behavior, impotence and decreased sex drive, and memory impairment. In such patients, metabolic syndrome or atherosclerosis is more often.
Causes of Heart Failure
The causes of cardiac arrest at night in a dream are divided directly into cardiac and external. The main cardiac (cardiac) factors are increased blood pressure, atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis, ischemia and the myocardial inflammatory process, acute vascular obstruction due to embolism or thrombosis, rhythm disturbances, and cardiac tamponade development.
With cardiac tamponade, fluid accumulates between the parts of the pericardium. The cavities of the heart are compressed, the muscle cannot contract normally. This condition directly threatens the patient's life and requires urgent treatment. Pathology is characterized by the presence of complaints that patients usually present with heart failure.
Other causes of cardiac arrest in a dream include:
- loss of a significant amount of fluid with persistent diarrhea or vomiting, trauma, shock;
- unilateral compression of one lung;
- the appearance of air between the pleural layers;
- oxygen deficiency caused by suffocation or anemia;
- severe allergies;
- hypothermia of the body (below 28 degrees);
- metabolic disturbances or acute hypercalcemia.
Hypercalcemia is called in medical practice a pathological increase in calcium in the blood. This occurs due to increased leaching of calcium from bone tissue, decreased absorption of calcium by bones, active absorption of the substance in the intestine, slow excretion from the body, or a combination of several factors. The clinical manifestations of this pathology are diverse.
Indirect triggers
In the likelihood of a short-term cardiac arrest in a dream, risk factors affecting the stability of the body's immune defense are important. This is an electric shock, smoking and alcoholism, excessive overload of the heart muscle, unfavorable heredity (predisposition to cardiac arrhythmias or changes in blood composition), old age. Risks increase significantly when several factors are combined.
What happens when cardiac arrest
After a sudden cardiac arrest in a dream, clinical death occurs in the second minute. After the pupils dilate and do not respond to a light source, the skin quickly turns pale or acquires a pronounced bluish tint. These are the signs by which you can determine an extremely dangerous condition. In order for a person to survive, you need to “start” the heart (hold his indirect massage) a maximum of five to seven minutes after stopping.
Diagnosis of sudden cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest during sleep includes the initial symptoms of a clinical death state. When conducting effective resuscitation, this phase is reversible. Therefore, resuscitation should be started as soon as possible.
With complete loss of consciousness, the patient does not respond to braking or shouting. After stopping the activity of the heart muscle, the brain dies on average after seven minutes, because it is the first to suffer from oxygen deficiency, and the stop of metabolic processes causes cell death.
When diagnosing it becomes impossible to determine the pulse on the carotid artery, but this symptom depends on the experience of others. If there is no pulsation on the carotid artery, then you can try to listen to the heartbeat, putting the ear to the chest of the victim. After making sure that the heart does not beat, you need to immediately begin resuscitation.
Other symptoms of cardiac arrest in a dream include dilated pupils, the lack of pupil reaction to light, the appearance of individual seizures, or a change in skin color to pale or bluish. If an ambulance arrives at the scene, an electrocardiogram can confirm a simultaneous violation of breathing (in some cases, breathing does not stop at all, but is disturbed, which is accompanied by noisy breaths, the interval between which can be up to two minutes).
Types of cardiac arrest
In medical practice, cardiac arrest distinguishes asystole, ventricular tachycardia and electromechanical dissociation. Asystole is characterized by a complete cessation of contractions, with ventricular tachycardia, the pulse rises to 200 beats per minute, and electromechanical dissociation is determined in the presence of electrical activity, but the absence of mechanical activity.
Signs of imminent heart failure
Cardiac arrest in a dream is a sudden condition, but many patients noted signs of the imminent onset of such a dangerous condition. In 35% of patients, at least one symptom was observed indicating the presence of heart disease, Danish scientists say this. In 17% of cases, a few hours before the cardiac muscle stopped, a person lost consciousness or felt pain in the chest (34%) - this is the most common symptom. Some patients experienced shortness of breath (29%).
According to the results of American studies, every second person who was overtaken by a sudden cardiac arrest in a dream, faced with impaired functioning of the heart muscle several weeks before the attack. Half of the men and more than half of the women four weeks before the attack noted chest pain or shortness of breath. In almost all (93%), the same symptom appeared the day before cardiac arrest.
The consequences of heart failure
The severity of the consequences depends on the speed and accuracy of medical care. According to statistics, with a cardiac arrest in a dream, only one out of twenty people is saved from death. Long-term oxygen deficiency leads to the appearance of irreversible foci of ischemia in the brain, damage to the kidneys and liver. During resuscitation, fractures of the ribs, sternum, accumulation of air or gases in the pleural cavity are possible.
The consequences of the brain can be partial or complete impaired memory, paroxysmal cramps in the extremities, involuntary chewing movements, visual or auditory hallucinations, blindness associated with irreversible changes in the optic nerves (in this case, vision is restored in rare cases).
Stopping the activity of the heart muscle is not only provoked by cardiological diseases, but can also become a significant risk factor for the development of other pathologies.
Syndrome Prevention
You can prevent cardiac arrest in a dream by avoiding negative provoking factors that affect blood circulation. For people with heart diseases, regular walks in the fresh air, drinking plenty of clean water, refusing alcohol and smoking, and eating a healthy diet are just as important as taking cardiac pills.
The use of drugs to normalize heart rhythm is possible only under the control of the pulse. You must remember about a possible overdose. The patient should learn to independently determine and count the pulse, it is important to follow the doctor's recommendations regarding dosages and duration of medication.
Unfortunately, the decisive factor in sudden cardiac arrest in a dream is the speed of first aid. But to achieve full and effective resuscitation at home has not yet been possible.