Why do people suddenly die?

There are four main causes of sudden death: cardiovascular problems, stroke, pulmonary embolism and aortic rupture.

Dr. Tran Quoc Khanh at Viet Duc Friendship Hospital, Hanoi, said many patients died after surgery but initially thought it was successful. Recently, a patient had a single fracture of the thigh bone, went to the hospital for surgery (surgery was prepared), everything went smoothly. After surgery, a stable health patient is transferred to the ward for several hours, then begins to have chest dyspnea, respiratory distress and cyanosis. All emergency interventions were ineffective, patients died very quickly afterwards.

The death was so unexpected that the family requested an autopsy. The results show that the pulmonary artery of the patient suffers from a complete blockage, leading to death.

"This is one of the most common and dangerous complications in the world," said Dr. Khanh. "Health care workers can only prevent it from limiting the risk but cannot fully control these complications."

Another patient changed his knee joint for nearly a week, and he practiced walking to prepare to leave the hospital every day. Suddenly from the toilet came out, he suddenly appeared chest pain, hard to inhale, fell and fell into a coma very quickly. He was given a breathing tube and had a positive emergency but did not survive.

Sudden death can happen at any age, anyone.

Sudden Death is a sudden, sudden, instant death of a victim when a person is sick. Sudden death can occur at any age, anyone who is a normal person or who has a long-term illness.

Dr. Khanh said, this is one of the physicians' challenges. For years, medicine has always tried to find the cause of this condition. According to the American Heart Association and Mayo Clinic Medical Center, there are 4 main causes of sudden death both inside and outside the hospital, including: cardiovascular problems, stroke, pulmonary embolism and rupture aorta.

Cardiovascular problems: Mainly cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction

This is the leading cause of sudden death with 17.3 million deaths a year, which is expected to increase to more than 23.6 million in 2030. In the United States, about 326,000 patients suffer cardiac arrest each year and only nearly 11% survived, mostly men. The cause of cardiac arrest is usually hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (a genetic predisposition and this is the most common cause), coronary artery abnormalities, congenital heart disease, myocarditis, Brugada syndrome . .

For the cause of myocardial infarction, there is one person in the United States every 43 seconds, of which about one-fifth have no clinical symptoms.

Stroke (stroke)

There are two types of strokes: cerebral thrombosis or cerebral vascular rupture. Congestive stroke accounts for the majority (80%), often related to cardiovascular disease and high blood fat. A ruptured stroke is usually caused by uncontrolled hypertension and alcohol consumption.

Brain vascular accident is more common in people over 60 years of age, more men than women. Disease if it happens to women, the prognosis is more severe.

Sudden death due to blood clots causes pulmonary embolism (pulmonary embolism)

Deep blood clots often form when we are inactive for a long time. Pulmonary embolism usually occurs in bedridden people because of a serious illness or injury, or people recovering from surgery. This risk is also increased for those who sit for long periods of inactivity on long-distance flights or car trips.

Blood clots that appear in the pulmonary arteries clog the blood vessels in - out the lungs to exchange air, leading to a sudden lack of oxygen and death. Every year, about 60-100 thousand people die from pulmonary embolism, of which 25% die suddenly with two symptoms: dyspnea and chest pain.

Aortic aneurysm

The aorta is the largest artery in the body, which serves as the largest channel to help circulate blood throughout the body. For some reason (old age, chronic disease, infection, high blood pressure .) the vascular wall weakens, swells, causes aneurysm. One of them will cause a rupture of the aorta, the patient will lose blood very quickly and massively, 90% will die in a heartbeat.

In addition to the four main causes, Dr. Khanh said, in anesthesia resuscitation, another group of causes caused sudden death was anaphylaxis and an object reflux into the airway .

With conditions causing stroke, doctors have very little time to deal with and patients often die quickly.

For patients in the above situation, the doctors almost have very little time to deal with, or if so, the consequences and sequelae left to the patients are also extremely heavy (living plants, paralyzing half people, neurological deficiencies located .).

Doctors, in addition to careful examination, practice proper treatment of the regimen, explain to patients as well as their families about the condition, the risks of treatment and surgery, the risks that may occur."Patients as well as family members need to understand a very important issue in medical practice, that is, no matter how carefully trained medical professionals and practitioners practice, the complications are always there. It may happen, including sudden deaths , " said Dr. Khanh

Currently, it is difficult to screen and control people at risk of cardiac arrest. So, it can only be prevented by implementing a healthy lifestyle: not drinking a lot of coffee, carbonated water, limiting the use of stimulants such as alcohol . These foods can be disruptive. Heart rate even in previous healthy hearts, the risk of sudden death.

Play sports regularly to maintain good health, reduce the amount of blood fat or cholesterol that clings to the walls. People who are sick or have a history of chest injury - stomach, infection, heart surgery, family with stroke . need to comply with the doctor's requirements, avoid unfortunate accidents.

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