Eli5: what is the difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest?

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Eli5: what is the difference between a heart attack and a cardiac arrest?

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Answer 1

To put it very very simply, heart attack is your heart not working properly. Cardiac arrest is your heart not working at all.

Answer 2

Heart attack is heart cells dieing due to lack of blood flow, cardiac arrest is the heart stopping beating. Heart attack can lead to cardiac arrest but it won’t always and there is many other causes