According to media reports, Xie Yuan, a movie actor and former teacher at the Beijing Film Academy, died of a sudden heart attack on August 18 at the age of 61, after being rescued.
Xie Yuan graduated from the 78th grade of the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy, and won many acting awards, including the Golden Rooster Award for Chinese films, the Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films, the Golden Eagle Award for Chinese TV dramas, and the Flying Apsaras Award.
Previously, 35-year-old actor Gao Yixiang suddenly fainted during the running process during the recording of a variety show, and after nearly three hours of full-scale rescue after being sent to the hospital, the hospital finally announced that Gao Yixiang died of sudden cardiogenic death.
According to the China Cardiovascular Disease Report 2016 released by the National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, the number of sudden cardiac deaths in China is more than 540,000 per year, with an average of one person experiencing cardiac arrest every minute, yet our CPR success rate is less than 1%!
6 signs of a sudden heart attack
According to Jiu Yanling, deputy chief physician of the cardiovascular internal medicine department of the Jinzhou City Central Hospital in Liaoning Province, sudden cardiac arrest is a very scary disease, which often catches people off guard due to the fact that it occurs very suddenly. If not rescued in time, it can easily threaten life and health.
There are often signs before a heart attack, pay attention to these signs, early detection, early treatment measures.
1. Difficulty in breathing, dizziness and difficulty in taking deep breaths
When you feel that it is difficult to take deep breaths, you may think that it is your lungs that are at fault, but it could equally be the result of too little oxygen in the blood due to a weak heart. Officially, difficulty breathing and shortness of breath are usually the first signs of a series of heart conditions. In a Harvard study, 40 percent of women with heart disease had shortness of breath, among other things, in the six months before they were diagnosed.
2. Increased, pounding or irregular heartbeat
A sudden, or unexplained, increase in heart rate, and an irregular heartbeat can alert you a few weeks or a month or two before a heart attack that you need to pay attention. If it's just an arrhythmia and not accompanied by an increase in heart rate, then it's a little better, but once an irregular heartbeat is accompanied by an increase in heartbeats per minute, then your body has given you a clear indication that it's time to go to the hospital right away. Especially after exercise, if ventricular tachycardia occurs, there is a high risk of sudden death in a short period of time. So make sure you seek help in the shortest possible time.
3. Nausea, stomach pain, indigestion
If you experience any of these reactions without any apparent cause, you are most likely suffering from a cardiovascular problem, which can lead to gastrointestinal distress. Clogged arteries due to fatty deposits will reduce or even block the transmission of blood to the heart, and this can cause angina.
4. Extreme fatigue
If you have overwhelming fatigue that lasts for days, weeks, or even months, it's a sign that something is wrong with your heart. Sure, you might say you can feel fatigued with a cold, but persistent fatigue isn't simply caused by a virus. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 70 percent of women experience extreme fatigue in the weeks leading up to confirmation of heart disease.
5. Unusual Excessive Sweating
Sudden sweating when you haven't been exercising for a while is often a sign that you're having a heart attack. For women, it can feel more like hot flashes or night sweats during menopause. According to the University of Chicago study, sweating can occur in areas of the body such as the neck, back, scalp, palms or feet before a heart attack.
6. Pain in the shoulder, neck, jaw, or arm
Chest pain is one of the most common and well-known symptoms of heart disease, and because of this, it's easy to overlook other similar information, such as pain in the shoulder or neck. In fact, the body sends pain signals from the heart up and down the spinal cord via nerves that radiate around the spine.
So, what should you do if you have a heart attack or cardiac arrest? It is important to remember the golden 4 minutes.
What is the golden 4 minutes?
The key means to improve the survival rate of cardiac arrest is - timely and effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and external automated defibrillator (AED).
Irreversible brain damage occurs within 4-6 minutes of a person's cardiac arrest. In normal room temperature, cardiac arrest after 3 seconds, people will feel dizzy due to lack of oxygen in the brain, 10-20 seconds later, people will lose consciousness. 30-45 seconds after the pupils will be dilated, a minute after the respiratory arrest, urinary and fecal incontinence, after 4 minutes, the brain cells will be irreversible damage.
Recently, Xuzhou train station, a woman suddenly fell to the ground cardiac arrest. A girl in blue rushed to the scene, the emergency implementation of CPR and AED shock rescue, the woman gradually recovered heartbeat. Because of the timely rescue, the woman has recovered. But in most cases, cardiac arrest occurs outside the hospital, 120 doctors arrived at the time of the basic has missed the best treatment time.
In order to strive for the best rescue time, so that the heart in the shortest possible time to restore the operation of a combination of mobile and easy to operate "automated external defibrillator" shock defibrillator AED was born. AED is a kind of non-professionals can also use the medical equipment, placed in the crowded public **** place, can be used for heart attack victims of electric defibrillation. defibrillate a heart attack victim to help restore his or her heart rhythm. Because the AED will exponentially increase the success rate of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in sudden cardiac death, the pre-hospital emergency effect is excellent, so it is known as "life-saving weapon".
Before and after 2006, China's public **** places began to configure the AED. at present, Beijing and Shanghai have a record of nearly 2,000 units. With the joint help of the Red Cross and other related organizations, groups and enterprises, the popularity of AEDs in China has risen significantly.
So when encountering a cardiac arrest patient, you should first call 120, and then perform proper CPR or external automated defibrillation on them.
What should I do with automated external defibrillation?
Automated external defibrillation uses an automated external defibrillator, or AED, which is an emergency device designed for on-site resuscitation.
What are the four golden minutes of external defibrillation?
Part 1: Before using an AED defibrillator
Step 1: Call loudly to the patient, keep tapping on his shoulders to make sure the patient is still conscious;
Step 2: If the patient is unresponsive, call 120 immediately, and call loudly to ask people nearby to look for the nearest AED defibrillator;
Step 3: Check whether there is any breathing movement in the patient's chest and abdomen. abdomen for breathing movements. If there is no breathing or breathing is not normal, immediately CPR.
Part 2: When using an AED defibrillator
Step 4: Expose the patient's chest and attach the electrode pads as instructed;
Step 5: Have others move away from the patient and follow the AED defibrillator's voice commands. Press the AED defibrillator analysis button to analyze the patient's ECG. Wait for the AED defibrillator to report whether a shock is required;
Step 6: When the AED defibrillator indicates that a shock is required, make sure that no one is touching the patient's body; press the button to administer the shock;
Step 7: Immediately after a shock is administered, re-administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation with the AED defibrillator electrode patches attached;
Step 8: After 2 minutes, the AED defibrillator automatically determines whether to apply another shock, following voice instructions; wait for an ambulance to arrive.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be an essential first-aid skill for all of us, but note that CPR is not available for all fainting patients.
What are some of the situations in which CPR should not be used?
When a patient faints, the first thing you need to do is to determine whether the patient is breathing on his own, and only patients in cardiac arrest need to be given cardiac compression and artificial respiration.
Patients with cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction may also have symptoms of fainting, but do not need CPR. When this kind of patient faints, you should help clean up the patient's oral debris in time, cushion the patient's neck, tilt his head back, support his jaw, and tilt his head to the side, to keep the patient's airway open, and to avoid asphyxiation caused by vomitus entering the airway.
How to prevent heart disease in daily life?
1. Quit drinking Excessive intake of ethanol has a toxic effect on the heart and weakens the contraction ability of the heart muscle.
2. According to research, weight control is directly proportional to the probability of coronary heart disease, and hypertension with diabetes is twice as likely to cause coronary heart disease as hypertension without diabetes.
3. Improve the living environment, environmental pollution and noise places may induce heart disease, therefore, long-term survival in a relatively poor environment readers, I recommend that you change the new environment, no noise, fresh air places, so you can benefit the physical and mental health.
4. Quit smoking middle-aged smoking men than non-smoking normal people to get coronary heart disease, and the probability of three times. In addition, smoking is also an important cause of angina attacks and sudden death.
5. Regular life Any disease is related to the insignificant living arrangements, you should eat a balanced diet, active and sustained participation in a moderate amount of exercise, keep a happy mood, do not stay up all night and not overworked, to promote the body metabolism, the disease will be far away from you.
Everyone must maintain a healthy lifestyle, do not give yourself too much pressure, so as to maximize the distance from sudden cardiac death.