(Reuters) - A coroner in Los Angeles has confirmed that pop music legend Michael Jackson died on Thursday after arriving at a hospital in full cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart ...

Cardiac arrest is defined as a sudden stop in heart function. Essentially, the pumping function of the heart is compromised, oftentimes due to a dangerous malfunction of the heart's electrical system.

An analysis of public videos of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests shows brief warning signs, seizure-like movements that may be ...

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Medical officials said he might not have lived without the lifeguards' quick action giving him CPR for 16 minutes.

Cardiac arrest means an absence of cardiac activity — in essence, a person’s heart stops beating. While certain health conditions and other factors increase the risk of cardiac arrest, it can happen ...

Deaths due to cardiac arrest in college athletes have been steadily declining over the last 20 years, a new study finds. An analysis of data from more than 2 million NCAA athletes revealed that 143 ...

Though the terms “cardiac arrest” and “heart attack” are often used interchangeably, they are separate diagnoses and mean different things. But both are life-threatening emergencies that require ...

Share on Pinterest About half of people who have cardiac arrest have symptoms a day earlier. izusek/Getty Images About 50% of people who experience cardiac arrest have symptoms up to 24 hours before ...

A Jan. 4 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) claims that 1,101 athletes died of sudden cardiac arrest between 1966 and 2004 and that 1,598 athletes died of sudden cardiac arrest between 2021 ...

USC men’s basketball player Bronny James collapsed during a practice session Monday and suffered cardiac arrest. The incident took place at USC’s Galen Center where the program’s medical staff was ...

(Reuters) - A coroner in Los Angeles has confirmed that pop music legend Michael Jackson died on Thursday after arriving at a hospital in full cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart ...