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cardiac arrest
(redirected from Heart arrest)

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cardiac arrest [′kärd·ē‚ak ə′rest]
(medicine)
Cessation of the heartbeat.


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Immediate treatments for hypothermia involve stopping further heat loss, restoring heat by fluid infusion of the patient, and gently handling the patient since the hypothermic condition can cause heart arrest and strokes.
Only three out of every 100 victims of heart arrest survive
 
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