{"id":9183,"date":"2013-10-16T13:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=9183"},"modified":"2023-04-13T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:00:57","slug":"does-an-implanted-defibrillator-prevent-death-from-a-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/does-an-implanted-defibrillator-prevent-death-from-a-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Does an implanted defibrillator prevent death from a heart attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4-_I2W64hYg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Does an implanted defibrillator prevent death from a heart attack?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Heart attack is damage to a region of heart muscle due to blockage of a blood vessel supplying oxygenated blood to the heart. Sometimes the heart rhythm can get abnormal and life-threatening conditions known as ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation can occur in the setting of a heart attack. An implanted defibrillator can promptly detect and treat these abnormal rhythms known as arrhythmias and prevent sudden death.<\/p>\n<p>Thus an implanted defibrillator can prevent sudden death due to heart attack indirectly. But a heart attack can rarely cause death in other ways like failure of pumping function of the heart known as heart failure and very rarely by rupture of the heart. 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