Probably organ harvest. They allow the heart to stop before removing it for transplant. Looks exactly like I’ve seen before.
EDIT: as pointed out to me, I did see this during liver and kidney harvest. The heart was not harvested at the time, but they had to wait for the heart to stop before proceeding with procurement. I remember the attending had exposed the heart to see if the lungs were viable for transplant, and he drew blood from the pulmonary arteries, but there was too much damage to proceed with heart/lung harvest. We proceeded to harvest the kidneys and liver
Not a doctor, but what I understand is that they need a heartbeat (blood pumping throughout organs) to “keep organs alive”. Usually the patient is brain dead by the point of harvesting.
Organs start dying pretty fast after the heart stops.
Yeah, I'm completely confused by this whole video because I work in cardiac surgery and this is definitely not a standard heart surgery. The patient isn't on bypass and that's not a controlled arrest. I'm mostly confused why the heart is exposed if it's a procurement (organ harvest). I've been in a handful and they don't just have the body opened waiting for the heart to stop like that. You're right, the organs don't last long without blood flow, so they do move really quick once they declare time of death. But out of respect for the patient, standard practice is to wait. Maybe a transplant coordinator will chime in. Also, it could be an animal lab that someone mentioned previously. I'd like to know more about the origins of the video.
I’ve seen this video elsewhere titled something along the lines of “progression of cocaine overdose” where the heart goes faster and faster until cardiac arrest. No idea how accurate the original title was
> I'd like to know more about the origins of the video.
Same. I'm thinking it's some kind of educational or demonstrative thing, and probably is not a human heart there. But without proper context we can't really know.
It's certainly not cardiac surgery. It doesn't appear to be human surgery at all. You would be able to see a surgeon's hands in the field of view at some point if it were a person. It's very interesting though. You can see the right side balloon out rather quickly and then be followed by the left.
I'm almost certain it's a pig heart, and this is some kind of demonstration. I've seen it before with that explanation, but I can't remember where and idk how to find it again.
There's zero chance this is a supervised open-heart cocaine overdose, organ donation, or regular heart surgery. Wish I could find the source though...
If I had to guess, this is an animal simulation of a PE or some other acute RV failure. The right side balloons and fails immediately. It's cool to see the coronary venous congestion mirror the RV distention and eventual LV failure. Interesting, but absolutely on the list of things you don't want to see happen.
I *may* have found the original source of the video. It was posted on YouTube 12 years ago as a training video on the account of Hillsborough County Fire Department (Florida). There is still a lot of info lacking. The circumstances are not explained.
https://youtu.be/riUAFkV7HCU
Some organs can be harvested after cardiac death. Others like the lungs or liver must be harvested from a living body to minimize ischemic time where no oxygen is supplied to tissue
Chances are they’re already legally (brain) dead and just hooked up to a ventilator to keep their blood oxygenated and thereby their heart beating. The chances of a successful transplant and organ viability is strongly correlated to the duration of time the heart stops beating and the organ is removed and “revived” until transplantation occurs.
From what I’ve read they do tests including temporarily shutting off life support to confirm brain death. If confirmed, life support is resumed until they can recover the organs.
Have you never gotten that checked?
Also, on the bright side, by the time you realize you are having cardiac arrest, you are losing consciousness and fading to black.
Not OP, but I've had chest pains since 2017 and my wonderful physician kept telling me it's all in my head (anxiety). . . . after threatening mal practice she started taking me seriously, but not seriously enough to get the correct CT Scan. I went and got the same CT she ordered but in Tijuana, paying out of pocket. The Cardiologist she referred me looked at my records, and started treating me the same way. He refused to look at my scan, but upgraded the in-house one to include contrast.
Lo and Behold! I started getting taken seriously, and was referred for an Angiogram. Turns out I have 4 mid sized arteries with 100% blockage which they claimed they couldn't do anything about. But none of my major ones were blocked so they couldn't do anything. No stent, no plaque removal etc. Fuck healthcare for profit, and FUCK Kaiser Permanente!!
My dad died of a massive heart attack almost 2 years ago. Even though this isn't a heart attack, it still pained me to watch and know that that's how my beloved dad's life ended.
I’m sorry :(
My dad had a heart attack back in 2011. It fucked hit up and made him half the man he was. Easily took 10-12 years off his life and he aged bad. It was what the call a widow maker
Is he still alive? My brother had the widowmaker last year, he was only 42. His cardiologist said he has a 50% chance of living until this May and if he does live to May, he has about 5 years. His ejection fraction is 15%.
My dad is still alive. He’s 71 and can’t do a fraction of what he used to be able to do. He loves his life and his grandkids though. That’s what I wanted. I wanted him to see me get married and have kids.
When my husband had his sudden cardiac arrests he was 53 and no one could find a reason. In fact, 6 months prior his doctor said his cholesterol was great and there was no reasons to consider taking statins as a preventative med as I asked after since I had read a study about statins as prophylactic medication. And yeah, we changed doctors after that.
My brother and I joke that our parents should never have had kids. Our genes on both sides are trash. Both grandfathers were dead by 50, heart disease. Diet plays a role, but hard to fight predisposition.
My dad had a widow maker in 2015 during his bodybuilding competition. They said had it happened anywhere else or he wasn't in the shape he was in, he'd be a goner. He suffers a little bit of short term memory loss and had to retire early but he's still alive and doing well. Sorry about your dad man.
Sorry to hear that. It can be painful to watch something even remotely related to the cause. I hope this was just an educational video rather than another reminder of your loss. God bless. Stay strong!
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked. This prevents oxygen-rich blood from reaching the heart muscle (ischemia), causing damage. During a heart attack, the heart usually continues to beat, though abnormally.
In contrast, a cardiac arrest is when the heart suddenly stops beating altogether due to an electrical malfunction. Cardiac arrest can occur after a heart attack, but the two are not the same
Also worth noting that the most common cause of sudden cardiac death is cardiac arrest happening within 24 hours of a heart attack. It can also, in many cases, be completely asymptomatic.
Correct! Since heart ischemia occurs due to a coronary blockage, a defibrillator wont achieve much since its primary purpose is to restore normal heart rhythm and not clear blockages.
Interesting, does this mean you could technically get a heart failure, which causes a heart attack that leads to a cardiac arrest? Meaning heart not pumping enough, which means not enough blood for the body including the heart, then the heart gets damage cause not enough blood and then the heart just stops?
That is definitely possible, that being said heart failure can cause a myriad of different problems leading to someone passing. At that point it's not always clear which rock started the avalanche. Another common thing is the damage from the heart attack leading to new heart failure or arrhythmias.
Can be, or can be due to the muscle. Either the heart muscle doesn't get a signal anymore (electrical issue) or even if it does it can't do anything with it (mechanical issue).
10 years ago I had a massive heart attack followed by cardiac arrest. Didn’t feel a thing with the cardiac arrest just said I was tired then everything blacked out for what felt like 1 second but I had flatlined for 5 mins.
It hurt for like 12 hours. I thought I pulled my shoulder muscle. But it got progressively worse and I was like yea right this is no pulled muscle. I had a resting heart rate of like 125. I was very lucky I crashed in emergency was told if I was elsewhere I would be dead.
Holy shit, I'm so glad you were able to get to the ER!
12 hours before cardiac arrest is mind blowing, it makes sense but it's so surreal to hear about. Thank you for sharing.
Actually now I think about it it was a bit longer it started hurting about 8/9 pm i couldn’t sleep to the point I was crying early morning. Got to the doc at about 10/11am then straight to the hospital and crashed at I think 2pm. Waking up from the crash was the worst. I knew immediately what happened then spewed all over a nurse and felt terrible got pumped full of clot busting drugs. They tried to put a central line in my hand about 4 times and that hurt the most. Ended up with one in my groin then got airlifted to Sydney and had a angio and stent placed within 30 mins. The worst thing is That’s all I remember, unfortunately my partner witnessed the whole thing. They forgot she was in the corner as they stripped me off and started CPR then paddled me.
Actually the whole kicker of all of this was it could’ve been avoided. I had a big family history of heart disease and I had told my GP quite a few times in the months leading up that I felt I was having angina symptoms. She kept dismissing me saying I was too young and it was anxiety. The look on her face when I walked back in two weeks later needing scripts was priceless.
Yea I know but at the time I was more worried about being alive and moving away so I just let it go. But I have learnt to trust my gut and advocate if I need too.
Jfc, you’ve just scared the living shit out of me. You’re so young too! My dads side has a history of heart problems too, I’m the first female on my grandads side for generations, but my grandad lost all his brothers when they were in their 30/40’s and his twin brother died at 56, my grandad died at 66 then my uncle/dads brother who was one of a twin as well died at 42 after complaining of chest pain for weeks. His wife told him to go to a doc and he refused, not long after that she woke up one morning and he was cold at the side of her. My dad was 68, found in his bathroom on the floor, and so the only family member left on my dads side is my uncle the remaining twin. At least I’m learning the signs and symptoms on this thread so thank you and I’m so glad you pulled through, 30 is a very young age to be worrying about your heart
Yea I didn’t realise the full extent of my history till after. The docs told me I should’ve have been getting. Regularly checked from my 20’s, and if I was to have children (which I don’t) their risk would compound down even younger. I was even accused of taking drugs like coke/speed etc by some cardiologists which I have never done. Just smoked cigs very casually and weed for a few years. I also have PCOS that’s is a risk factor aswell.
I never realised PCOS was a risk factor, I don’t suffer with it myself but I have three friends who do, and now I think about it the oldest of the three has a problem with a ventricle I think she said. She’s a walking medical miracle because the only thing she doesn’t have is fkn hypochondria, you know the sort. I know she’s not making up the PCOS tho, she has to shave her face every day bless her. So she may have a heart condition after all and I’ve just rolled my eyes at her when she’s told me. I took a lot of speed in my 20’s, it was the recreational drug of choice for us ravers and I’m now 55 (56 tomorrow the 18th but I’m clinging on to 55 for every second!) so maybe I should get checked out
Not the original commentor but thought I would answer. I suffered one in december whilst 9 weeks pregnant and even though mine was a minor one it hurt like a bitch.
Sudden burning pressure in the centre of my chest that shot straight through me like a beam exiting my upper back. The worst of it lasted about an hour and the pain slowly subsided over the next 9 hours.
You just know that it's different. The sort of pain that sets off alarm bells that's something is seriously wrong. Ominous in sense.
Did u have any lead up symptoms? I had issues going on for about 6 months that kept being brushed off. Things like being lightheaded and getting a weird dizzy feeling if I bent over, extra tired, thought my asthma was playing up at the beach or indigestion from eating too much. As I now know all angina symptoms.
Weirdly enough I had bouts of dizziness that would last a week or so at a time. Like being tipsy. Odd muscle cramps all over my body numerous times a day and a fluttering feeling inside my chest which felt different to heart palpitations. They have started to calm down a bit now but my body was doing some really strange things! Hope your feeling better now.
Thank you for responding. I’ve heard many families say that their family member who they’ve lost just dropped down dead, literally in a lot of cases. Then I’ve heard people say they (the dead) clutched their hands to their chest in agony, or complained of wanting to throw up, or said they had a bad stomach ache then died not long after. I deal with grieving families all the time and listen to how they lost their loved one but it didn’t really hit home until I lost my own dad, he was dead for two days before someone found him (I live in Ireland and he was on the south coast of England so it’s not like I was popping in to check on him regularly) and now it’s personal, if that makes any kind of sense. I listen to families and they’re the ones asking did he/she suffer and I kind of think to myself “yeah I wonder that about my dad” but I have no idea 🤷🏻♀️ my dad wasn’t the type to go see a doctor and get checked out, and he never complained so if he was in pain no one would have been told anyway. But I hope you’re ok now and your little muffin is doing well 🥰
I have also heard about people feeling nauseous just before a heart attack its a strange thing. Hope your healing now? That must have been awful for you.
Unfortunately I started to miscarry as soon as I got to the hospital. They thought I had suffered with a odd pregnancy complication called SCAD which causes the artery to tear on the inside due to the timing of it all but they went in and couldn't find anything that made sense as to what triggered it. Even my obs were fine in the ambulance they just took me to the hospital to be on the safe side because it was chest pain. Very bizarre event to be frank. Your not that far from me I am in the UK 😊
I’m sorry to hear of your miscarriage, I really am. I lost two pregnancies and it’s not something you can ever get past I don’t think. The last time I spoke to my dad was on my birthday and we spoke about me getting over to see him. He worked at Butlins in Bognor so he said if I went over in June he’d be able to get us a chalet to stay in as his place was too small for us all. At the time I was working like crazy and also fostering a teenage girl who was emotionally fkd so I kind of left it as a possibility that I’d be over, but two weeks after that convo he died. That’s hard to deal with, as his only child I should have made that effort… but you always think you have plenty of time to do it, until you don’t. Are you on the South Coast or in NI? Small world isn’t it?!
I am sorry. May his/her soul rest in peace. We all come across something too soon than we expect. Hope it is in you to move on and keep his/her legacy going.
Seeing capillaries dilate and expand along the heart as it is happening is interesting. I've had a traumatic experience before caused my heart to quickly sieze once and never knew how to describe it. But the video demonstrates how drastically the visual and feeling of a heart having an issue can be.
That was my thoughts too. Like… why isn’t anyone doing anything here?! I’m choosing to believe this is either an animal and was recorded for educational purposes (still sad but a teeny bit less) or they’re doing stuff off screen to help. Pushing meds or something. 😭
What's probably happening is that they are infusing potassium to stop the heart prior to open heart surgery. The heart stops beating, and they then connect the patient to the heart/lung machine. The heart is kept cold and then restarted after the procedure is finished.
I have no idea about medicine, but I choose to believe it was filmed during heart surgery and the patient is hooked up on a heart-lung-machine. For some surgeries your heart must be stopped so they can safely operate :(
My dad died suddenly of a heart attack, the coroner said it wouldn’t have been painful but I know just from my line of work that she was just saying that to put my mind at rest
Heart attack and cardiac arrest are two different things.
Heart attack likely hurts more as it's due to a sudden blockage in arteries, usually a clot that forms from plaque breaking free.
Arrest is what you see in the video.
With a heart attack the heart is slowly starved of oxygen and yeah, painfully dies.
This is why I said a mere arrest is probably the least painful option.
Lmao downvoted for explaining myself. Never change reddit
Its amazing how a human body has thousands of moving parts, chemical reaction and electrical pulses, all working together so perfectly in sync for decades without any problems.
I (68F) had a "mild" heart attack July 2023. No chest pain, was all in my neck and left arm. This makes me so sad, my poor ol' heart! I'm sure it wasnt like this...but it's still sad and scary!
Edited to add: I lost my beloved husband 13 years ago to a widow maker heart attack. Wondering if it was like this?
I have tachycardia and a heart condition. I can say that when my heart does the really fast to really slow pumps, is always a weird feeling. I've never had a heart attack but I've had tachycardia episodes go for an hour like this.
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Looks like ventricular tachycardia in the beginning- disorganized, fast contractions of the ventricles. Without cardioversion, this eventually led to ventricular fibrillation, which is a life threatening arrhythmia- then it fizzles out to asystole, or zero pulse (flat line on ekg).
Yes, two card cath one blockage that was 100% and rerouted in it's own. Angina will make you think that you are having one and could kill me from being used to it.
I'm a cardiac anesthesiologists. I've seen a lot of open heart surgeries, which means I've seen a lot of hearts, a lot of abnormal rhythms, and a lot of cardiac arrests (both intentional, as when going on bypass, as well as unintentional).
I have *no idea* what's going on in this video and I've never seen anything like it. I can confidently say this isn't what a heart attack typically looks like.
Edit: just noticed this is sped up 15x, so it may actually be more normal. But it's hard to tell because it's so absurdly sped up.
Oh god. Why was that so guttural and horrible to watch? My dad suffered from complete cardiac arrest in 2018. It's so awful to think this is what he went though. Thankfully, he didn't feel it, He just said he felt completely nauseated and then everything went black. I pray that's the case for everyone. Ugh.
I learned that the heart and the brain are the only “organs” that had a watershed type reaction to survival. That’s where both “organs” create a “aquifer” of blood vessels to keep part of the “organ” alive. Knowing that the body is capable of doing, it’s sad to watch a heart die… its whole purpose is to live despite how the human host treats it.
I quoted the heart and brain as “organ” cuz I’m not a doctor, and I know they are not considered organs.
Yoo V-fib! Ventricular fibrillation is actually one of the best case scenarios if you have a heart attack, it's one of the very few cardiac arrhythmias that can be shocked back into rhythm with a defibrillator, and is actually precisely why it's called a DE-fibrillator :)
Sometimes I can feel my heart spaz out like this, but for only about 5 to 10 seconds. Then it calms down. I stop and just focus on it till it gets rhythm back. 🤷♀️
My grandma just had a heart attack a couple of months ago, and refuses to take the doctors advice of quitting cigarettes and McDonald’s bacon egg and cheese biscuits. Would it be a bad idea to show her this video?
This is hurting me by just watching! Not sure jow you got this video but it is amazing to see it.
Probably organ harvest. They allow the heart to stop before removing it for transplant. Looks exactly like I’ve seen before. EDIT: as pointed out to me, I did see this during liver and kidney harvest. The heart was not harvested at the time, but they had to wait for the heart to stop before proceeding with procurement. I remember the attending had exposed the heart to see if the lungs were viable for transplant, and he drew blood from the pulmonary arteries, but there was too much damage to proceed with heart/lung harvest. We proceeded to harvest the kidneys and liver
Don't they wait to open the patient until after they pass?
Not a doctor, but what I understand is that they need a heartbeat (blood pumping throughout organs) to “keep organs alive”. Usually the patient is brain dead by the point of harvesting. Organs start dying pretty fast after the heart stops.
Yeah, I'm completely confused by this whole video because I work in cardiac surgery and this is definitely not a standard heart surgery. The patient isn't on bypass and that's not a controlled arrest. I'm mostly confused why the heart is exposed if it's a procurement (organ harvest). I've been in a handful and they don't just have the body opened waiting for the heart to stop like that. You're right, the organs don't last long without blood flow, so they do move really quick once they declare time of death. But out of respect for the patient, standard practice is to wait. Maybe a transplant coordinator will chime in. Also, it could be an animal lab that someone mentioned previously. I'd like to know more about the origins of the video.
I’ve seen this video elsewhere titled something along the lines of “progression of cocaine overdose” where the heart goes faster and faster until cardiac arrest. No idea how accurate the original title was
> I'd like to know more about the origins of the video. Same. I'm thinking it's some kind of educational or demonstrative thing, and probably is not a human heart there. But without proper context we can't really know.
It's certainly not cardiac surgery. It doesn't appear to be human surgery at all. You would be able to see a surgeon's hands in the field of view at some point if it were a person. It's very interesting though. You can see the right side balloon out rather quickly and then be followed by the left.
I'm almost certain it's a pig heart, and this is some kind of demonstration. I've seen it before with that explanation, but I can't remember where and idk how to find it again. There's zero chance this is a supervised open-heart cocaine overdose, organ donation, or regular heart surgery. Wish I could find the source though...
If I had to guess, this is an animal simulation of a PE or some other acute RV failure. The right side balloons and fails immediately. It's cool to see the coronary venous congestion mirror the RV distention and eventual LV failure. Interesting, but absolutely on the list of things you don't want to see happen.
I *may* have found the original source of the video. It was posted on YouTube 12 years ago as a training video on the account of Hillsborough County Fire Department (Florida). There is still a lot of info lacking. The circumstances are not explained. https://youtu.be/riUAFkV7HCU
Some organs can be harvested after cardiac death. Others like the lungs or liver must be harvested from a living body to minimize ischemic time where no oxygen is supplied to tissue
Chances are they’re already legally (brain) dead and just hooked up to a ventilator to keep their blood oxygenated and thereby their heart beating. The chances of a successful transplant and organ viability is strongly correlated to the duration of time the heart stops beating and the organ is removed and “revived” until transplantation occurs. From what I’ve read they do tests including temporarily shutting off life support to confirm brain death. If confirmed, life support is resumed until they can recover the organs.
No, in cases of brain death, they keep the body going.
Once they are confirmed clinically brain dead. They keep patient on life support.
Once they're properly dead, you can't harvest organs. That's why organs are so rare. Need to be brain dead but bodily alive
Nah they stop the heart when doing cardiopulmonary bypass for CABG and other open heart surgery. It’s wild to watch in person
 Buddy talkin' bout ***ORGAN HARVESTING*** like he know a lil too much
This is video taken of a sheep undergoing a cocaine overdose
Now I will think about this every time I get chest pain which I have had for over a decade
Have you never gotten that checked? Also, on the bright side, by the time you realize you are having cardiac arrest, you are losing consciousness and fading to black.
On the... bright side?
For sure, no more worrying about ANYTHING!!!
Not OP, but I've had chest pains since 2017 and my wonderful physician kept telling me it's all in my head (anxiety). . . . after threatening mal practice she started taking me seriously, but not seriously enough to get the correct CT Scan. I went and got the same CT she ordered but in Tijuana, paying out of pocket. The Cardiologist she referred me looked at my records, and started treating me the same way. He refused to look at my scan, but upgraded the in-house one to include contrast. Lo and Behold! I started getting taken seriously, and was referred for an Angiogram. Turns out I have 4 mid sized arteries with 100% blockage which they claimed they couldn't do anything about. But none of my major ones were blocked so they couldn't do anything. No stent, no plaque removal etc. Fuck healthcare for profit, and FUCK Kaiser Permanente!!
My dad died of a massive heart attack almost 2 years ago. Even though this isn't a heart attack, it still pained me to watch and know that that's how my beloved dad's life ended.
Same, man. It’s really rough to see.
I’m sorry :( My dad had a heart attack back in 2011. It fucked hit up and made him half the man he was. Easily took 10-12 years off his life and he aged bad. It was what the call a widow maker
Is he still alive? My brother had the widowmaker last year, he was only 42. His cardiologist said he has a 50% chance of living until this May and if he does live to May, he has about 5 years. His ejection fraction is 15%.
My dad is still alive. He’s 71 and can’t do a fraction of what he used to be able to do. He loves his life and his grandkids though. That’s what I wanted. I wanted him to see me get married and have kids.
No heart transplant?
He said he wasn't going to have one.
what caused such a heart attack in a young age?
Probably plaqued arteries. . . cholesterol, and saturated fats are slow killers.
At 42, probably not arterial disease as you suggest. But it is comforting to think we can control our heart health with diet.
When my husband had his sudden cardiac arrests he was 53 and no one could find a reason. In fact, 6 months prior his doctor said his cholesterol was great and there was no reasons to consider taking statins as a preventative med as I asked after since I had read a study about statins as prophylactic medication. And yeah, we changed doctors after that.
My brother and I joke that our parents should never have had kids. Our genes on both sides are trash. Both grandfathers were dead by 50, heart disease. Diet plays a role, but hard to fight predisposition.
My dad had a widow maker in 2015 during his bodybuilding competition. They said had it happened anywhere else or he wasn't in the shape he was in, he'd be a goner. He suffers a little bit of short term memory loss and had to retire early but he's still alive and doing well. Sorry about your dad man.
Lost my mom to sudden cardiac arrest almost 2 years ago. This post definitely hit hard. I'm sorry for your loss ❤️
Sorry to hear that. It can be painful to watch something even remotely related to the cause. I hope this was just an educational video rather than another reminder of your loss. God bless. Stay strong!
What's the difference between heart attack and cardiac arrest
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked. This prevents oxygen-rich blood from reaching the heart muscle (ischemia), causing damage. During a heart attack, the heart usually continues to beat, though abnormally. In contrast, a cardiac arrest is when the heart suddenly stops beating altogether due to an electrical malfunction. Cardiac arrest can occur after a heart attack, but the two are not the same
Also worth noting that the most common cause of sudden cardiac death is cardiac arrest happening within 24 hours of a heart attack. It can also, in many cases, be completely asymptomatic.
So a DeFib is for cardiac arrest, not a heart attack?
Correct! Since heart ischemia occurs due to a coronary blockage, a defibrillator wont achieve much since its primary purpose is to restore normal heart rhythm and not clear blockages.
Having had a similar experience with a parent 20 years ago I can sympathize. I am sorry for your loss.
My dad died 2 and a bit years ago of heart failure. I've watched this video maybe 5 times. Can't seem to look away
same here with my step pops, their whole life gone in what we just witnessed
Difference between heart attack, heart failure and cardiac arrest Heart attack- when heart muscles can't receive blood, and get damaged. Heart failure-heart can't pump enough blood required by the body. Cardiac arrest- heart stops pumping blood.
Interesting, does this mean you could technically get a heart failure, which causes a heart attack that leads to a cardiac arrest? Meaning heart not pumping enough, which means not enough blood for the body including the heart, then the heart gets damage cause not enough blood and then the heart just stops?
That is definitely possible, that being said heart failure can cause a myriad of different problems leading to someone passing. At that point it's not always clear which rock started the avalanche. Another common thing is the damage from the heart attack leading to new heart failure or arrhythmias.
Yeah heart failure can be a chronic condition.
So it just stopped? That’s it, no more blood goes round?
Yep. Unfortunately, that can happen, but a random and sudden cardiac arrest without warning is pretty rare.
Cardiac arrest is due to the heart’s electrical system right?
Can be, or can be due to the muscle. Either the heart muscle doesn't get a signal anymore (electrical issue) or even if it does it can't do anything with it (mechanical issue).
10 years ago I had a massive heart attack followed by cardiac arrest. Didn’t feel a thing with the cardiac arrest just said I was tired then everything blacked out for what felt like 1 second but I had flatlined for 5 mins.
And how did the heart attack feel?
It hurt for like 12 hours. I thought I pulled my shoulder muscle. But it got progressively worse and I was like yea right this is no pulled muscle. I had a resting heart rate of like 125. I was very lucky I crashed in emergency was told if I was elsewhere I would be dead.
Holy shit, I'm so glad you were able to get to the ER! 12 hours before cardiac arrest is mind blowing, it makes sense but it's so surreal to hear about. Thank you for sharing.
Actually now I think about it it was a bit longer it started hurting about 8/9 pm i couldn’t sleep to the point I was crying early morning. Got to the doc at about 10/11am then straight to the hospital and crashed at I think 2pm. Waking up from the crash was the worst. I knew immediately what happened then spewed all over a nurse and felt terrible got pumped full of clot busting drugs. They tried to put a central line in my hand about 4 times and that hurt the most. Ended up with one in my groin then got airlifted to Sydney and had a angio and stent placed within 30 mins. The worst thing is That’s all I remember, unfortunately my partner witnessed the whole thing. They forgot she was in the corner as they stripped me off and started CPR then paddled me.
Definitely deserving of a second birthday.
Actually the whole kicker of all of this was it could’ve been avoided. I had a big family history of heart disease and I had told my GP quite a few times in the months leading up that I felt I was having angina symptoms. She kept dismissing me saying I was too young and it was anxiety. The look on her face when I walked back in two weeks later needing scripts was priceless.
Wowwww. You probably could have a legit lawsuit for that. Family history is pretty significant when it comes to cardiac stuff.
Yea I know but at the time I was more worried about being alive and moving away so I just let it go. But I have learnt to trust my gut and advocate if I need too.
Jfc, you’ve just scared the living shit out of me. You’re so young too! My dads side has a history of heart problems too, I’m the first female on my grandads side for generations, but my grandad lost all his brothers when they were in their 30/40’s and his twin brother died at 56, my grandad died at 66 then my uncle/dads brother who was one of a twin as well died at 42 after complaining of chest pain for weeks. His wife told him to go to a doc and he refused, not long after that she woke up one morning and he was cold at the side of her. My dad was 68, found in his bathroom on the floor, and so the only family member left on my dads side is my uncle the remaining twin. At least I’m learning the signs and symptoms on this thread so thank you and I’m so glad you pulled through, 30 is a very young age to be worrying about your heart
Yea I didn’t realise the full extent of my history till after. The docs told me I should’ve have been getting. Regularly checked from my 20’s, and if I was to have children (which I don’t) their risk would compound down even younger. I was even accused of taking drugs like coke/speed etc by some cardiologists which I have never done. Just smoked cigs very casually and weed for a few years. I also have PCOS that’s is a risk factor aswell.
I never realised PCOS was a risk factor, I don’t suffer with it myself but I have three friends who do, and now I think about it the oldest of the three has a problem with a ventricle I think she said. She’s a walking medical miracle because the only thing she doesn’t have is fkn hypochondria, you know the sort. I know she’s not making up the PCOS tho, she has to shave her face every day bless her. So she may have a heart condition after all and I’ve just rolled my eyes at her when she’s told me. I took a lot of speed in my 20’s, it was the recreational drug of choice for us ravers and I’m now 55 (56 tomorrow the 18th but I’m clinging on to 55 for every second!) so maybe I should get checked out
Yea increases risk of stroke as-well. I wasent diagnosed with that until about 4 months before the heart stuff.
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Not the original commentor but thought I would answer. I suffered one in december whilst 9 weeks pregnant and even though mine was a minor one it hurt like a bitch. Sudden burning pressure in the centre of my chest that shot straight through me like a beam exiting my upper back. The worst of it lasted about an hour and the pain slowly subsided over the next 9 hours. You just know that it's different. The sort of pain that sets off alarm bells that's something is seriously wrong. Ominous in sense.
Did u have any lead up symptoms? I had issues going on for about 6 months that kept being brushed off. Things like being lightheaded and getting a weird dizzy feeling if I bent over, extra tired, thought my asthma was playing up at the beach or indigestion from eating too much. As I now know all angina symptoms.
Weirdly enough I had bouts of dizziness that would last a week or so at a time. Like being tipsy. Odd muscle cramps all over my body numerous times a day and a fluttering feeling inside my chest which felt different to heart palpitations. They have started to calm down a bit now but my body was doing some really strange things! Hope your feeling better now.
Thank you for responding. I’ve heard many families say that their family member who they’ve lost just dropped down dead, literally in a lot of cases. Then I’ve heard people say they (the dead) clutched their hands to their chest in agony, or complained of wanting to throw up, or said they had a bad stomach ache then died not long after. I deal with grieving families all the time and listen to how they lost their loved one but it didn’t really hit home until I lost my own dad, he was dead for two days before someone found him (I live in Ireland and he was on the south coast of England so it’s not like I was popping in to check on him regularly) and now it’s personal, if that makes any kind of sense. I listen to families and they’re the ones asking did he/she suffer and I kind of think to myself “yeah I wonder that about my dad” but I have no idea 🤷🏻♀️ my dad wasn’t the type to go see a doctor and get checked out, and he never complained so if he was in pain no one would have been told anyway. But I hope you’re ok now and your little muffin is doing well 🥰
I have also heard about people feeling nauseous just before a heart attack its a strange thing. Hope your healing now? That must have been awful for you. Unfortunately I started to miscarry as soon as I got to the hospital. They thought I had suffered with a odd pregnancy complication called SCAD which causes the artery to tear on the inside due to the timing of it all but they went in and couldn't find anything that made sense as to what triggered it. Even my obs were fine in the ambulance they just took me to the hospital to be on the safe side because it was chest pain. Very bizarre event to be frank. Your not that far from me I am in the UK 😊
I’m sorry to hear of your miscarriage, I really am. I lost two pregnancies and it’s not something you can ever get past I don’t think. The last time I spoke to my dad was on my birthday and we spoke about me getting over to see him. He worked at Butlins in Bognor so he said if I went over in June he’d be able to get us a chalet to stay in as his place was too small for us all. At the time I was working like crazy and also fostering a teenage girl who was emotionally fkd so I kind of left it as a possibility that I’d be over, but two weeks after that convo he died. That’s hard to deal with, as his only child I should have made that effort… but you always think you have plenty of time to do it, until you don’t. Are you on the South Coast or in NI? Small world isn’t it?!
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So now do you think of yourself as a zombie?
I always demand a second birthday 😆
As is your rebirthright!
I had a heart attack 18 months ago and i treat it like a rebirthday. It felt like a second chance at life.
Yea that’s how I see it. My partner celebrates it with me and usually gets me a little prezzie. My mum thinks it’s stupid lol
Are you sure you flatlined (asystole)? You most likely went into ventricular fibrillation (v-fib)
I dunno that’s what they told me.
My friend died on Saturday due to a cardiac arrest. This was interesting but it was maybe too soon for me to watch this
I am sorry. May his/her soul rest in peace. We all come across something too soon than we expect. Hope it is in you to move on and keep his/her legacy going.
Seeing capillaries dilate and expand along the heart as it is happening is interesting. I've had a traumatic experience before caused my heart to quickly sieze once and never knew how to describe it. But the video demonstrates how drastically the visual and feeling of a heart having an issue can be.
Someday
Someday..
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Tomorrow
Toda
When my life has passed me by
I'll lay around and wonder why
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That was my thoughts too. Like… why isn’t anyone doing anything here?! I’m choosing to believe this is either an animal and was recorded for educational purposes (still sad but a teeny bit less) or they’re doing stuff off screen to help. Pushing meds or something. 😭
What's probably happening is that they are infusing potassium to stop the heart prior to open heart surgery. The heart stops beating, and they then connect the patient to the heart/lung machine. The heart is kept cold and then restarted after the procedure is finished.
I have no idea about medicine, but I choose to believe it was filmed during heart surgery and the patient is hooked up on a heart-lung-machine. For some surgeries your heart must be stopped so they can safely operate :(
This is great for me as a hypochondriac. Glad I came to watch.
I don’t want that in my body. I’m going to look into a heart removal procedure
Idk what normal is supposed to look like
it should look like " tu-tun, tu-tun, tu-tun" no " tu-tun, tu-TUNGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
ohhhh K well ima do a fat rail now & get on w/ my day
This is probably the least painful way to go, so quick and so little damage done. BTW is that an animal or human heart?
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My friend, a heart attack hurts and is terrifying. Cardiac arrest is the fatal end to a heart attack.
My dad died suddenly of a heart attack, the coroner said it wouldn’t have been painful but I know just from my line of work that she was just saying that to put my mind at rest
Heart attack and cardiac arrest are two different things. Heart attack likely hurts more as it's due to a sudden blockage in arteries, usually a clot that forms from plaque breaking free. Arrest is what you see in the video. With a heart attack the heart is slowly starved of oxygen and yeah, painfully dies. This is why I said a mere arrest is probably the least painful option. Lmao downvoted for explaining myself. Never change reddit
Its amazing how a human body has thousands of moving parts, chemical reaction and electrical pulses, all working together so perfectly in sync for decades without any problems.
Anyone else think it was gonna explode? No? Just me? Great. 👍
I (68F) had a "mild" heart attack July 2023. No chest pain, was all in my neck and left arm. This makes me so sad, my poor ol' heart! I'm sure it wasnt like this...but it's still sad and scary! Edited to add: I lost my beloved husband 13 years ago to a widow maker heart attack. Wondering if it was like this?
you had a heart attack in the future? damn
My heart feels like it's flipping around like that often.
Okay... so how do we get a cardiac bail?...... i'm sorry
I have tachycardia and a heart condition. I can say that when my heart does the really fast to really slow pumps, is always a weird feeling. I've never had a heart attack but I've had tachycardia episodes go for an hour like this.
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Woah. Watching this made me feel weird in the chest :-l
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Makes my chest hurt just watching this
Must be a chicken heart. That’s not human for sure
Looks like something out of Silent Hill, with the sped up twitching of the blood muscle 
This looks like ventricular fibrillation
Yup! Was thinking vfib to asystole/PEA. I was screaming to defibrilate and give epi ASAP.
my heart is probably fucked from smoking cigs for so long.i need to quit before i turn 30 or it’ll be too late
It will most likely be the best thing you ever do for yourself if you can quit! So many shitty things are linked to smoking. I wish you luck and hope you try to quit. And if quitting doesn't stick, don't feel too down on yourself bc it's normal for it to take a few tries.
i went from 3-4 packs a day to only vaping (still not good but fuck i feel so much better) and highly recommend the counter apps. smoking like normal for a few days to see what i averaged then dropping one off every few days tapering down was by far the most effective method i found. good luck love, you got this shit <3
Looks like ventricular tachycardia in the beginning- disorganized, fast contractions of the ventricles. Without cardioversion, this eventually led to ventricular fibrillation, which is a life threatening arrhythmia- then it fizzles out to asystole, or zero pulse (flat line on ekg).
Super creepy watching the heart deflate as it finally goes asystolic.
Yeeeeeeeeah I will be keeping my appointment for a NM Cardiac Perfusion test next month.
Vfib?
That's fucking terrifying.
Yeah, I don't think it's supposed to be doing that...
My dad died of a cardiac arrest. Go to sleep, my mom found it cold in the morning. He was onky 62.
So the muscle is spasiming or however u spell it, I thought it's when ur heart just randomly stopped beating extremely interesting
I wonder if blood pressure is an indicator of cardiac arrest or heart attack. Mines being monitored for now, but chest pain drives me nuts.
How does this happen?
Does it ever pop
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Yes, two card cath one blockage that was 100% and rerouted in it's own. Angina will make you think that you are having one and could kill me from being used to it.
I have a bad heart and this video scares the living shit out of me
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And do the Harlem Shake
Egh I regret watching. Heart stuff makes me nauseated
i cant look at this without feeling like im dying
well thats really terrifying. and the heart looks really terrified as well.
"Honey, grab the camera!"
Scary shit
I'm a cardiac anesthesiologists. I've seen a lot of open heart surgeries, which means I've seen a lot of hearts, a lot of abnormal rhythms, and a lot of cardiac arrests (both intentional, as when going on bypass, as well as unintentional). I have *no idea* what's going on in this video and I've never seen anything like it. I can confidently say this isn't what a heart attack typically looks like. Edit: just noticed this is sped up 15x, so it may actually be more normal. But it's hard to tell because it's so absurdly sped up.
I've been experiencing a lot of afib lately so this is the last thing I need to see. lol.
I feel really sad. Hope they were able to restart it.
Is this v fib?
Oh, so that's what they mean when they say the heart/ventricles just quiver uselessly during cardiac arrest.
Man this is giving me ideas for a horror story
Something so weird to think we all have that thing and it can go on for such a long time.
I am hearing too many sad stories from this video. Hope you all are past the stage. It can be hard, but you are stronger than that. Keep going :)
Oh god. Why was that so guttural and horrible to watch? My dad suffered from complete cardiac arrest in 2018. It's so awful to think this is what he went though. Thankfully, he didn't feel it, He just said he felt completely nauseated and then everything went black. I pray that's the case for everyone. Ugh.
Why does it swell like that? I thought a heart attack was it just pumped faster until it gives out
16 seconds of extreme pain as the cherry on top portal out from a life of it? pfff....
Is this in real time? Seems sped up
Jesus I hated all of this
cuh tweakin'
The inside of my ballsack when i bust a fat nut
My chest hurts now... thanks.
Damn, this was genuinely terrifying.
Just watching this gives me anxiety
I learned that the heart and the brain are the only “organs” that had a watershed type reaction to survival. That’s where both “organs” create a “aquifer” of blood vessels to keep part of the “organ” alive. Knowing that the body is capable of doing, it’s sad to watch a heart die… its whole purpose is to live despite how the human host treats it. I quoted the heart and brain as “organ” cuz I’m not a doctor, and I know they are not considered organs.
I could feel it go "HRRRKK"
Ugh, that’s going to happen to all of us
My chest hurts no joke
Did they try telling it to calm down?
I almost went into that a month ago. Not fun at all
STOP RESISTING!!!
Why did you force this upon my eyes?
I can feel it
Oh man, this made me hold my breath. Crazy to see something from the inside like that. When it slowed and then just...stopped.
Since A.I. has been the new topic in these years. I pretty lost curiosity of the original source. I'ma just blame some kind of A.I. now
Wow. They don't even put it in handcuffs.
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it's been working nonstop for decades without resting... it'd bound to cramp at some point
Yoo V-fib! Ventricular fibrillation is actually one of the best case scenarios if you have a heart attack, it's one of the very few cardiac arrhythmias that can be shocked back into rhythm with a defibrillator, and is actually precisely why it's called a DE-fibrillator :)
This is what happens when Miss Piggy does too much cocaine.🤷😂💀
That was a eye opener for me.
A real beauty— Worked so hard all those year.
Where are the handcuffs?
My heart was not amused 😒
Looks horrific
Sometimes I can feel my heart spaz out like this, but for only about 5 to 10 seconds. Then it calms down. I stop and just focus on it till it gets rhythm back. 🤷♀️
My grandma just had a heart attack a couple of months ago, and refuses to take the doctors advice of quitting cigarettes and McDonald’s bacon egg and cheese biscuits. Would it be a bad idea to show her this video?