Millions of people all over the world lose their lives every year because of sudden death, and about 80% of sudden deaths are sudden cardiac deaths.
According to the statistics of the National Cardiovascular Center, the number of sudden cardiac death in China is as high as 550,000 every year, and the proportion of young and middle-aged people has increased significantly.
According to CCTV reports, more than half of the sudden deaths are young and middle-aged people.
Sudden death is a fierce "killer" that threatens human health-people who seem to be in good health or stable condition at ordinary times suddenly die of natural diseases in an unexpected short time, which often makes people unexpected and unable to fight back.
At present, there is no unified standard for defining the time of sudden death, which is considered to be within 1 hour, 6 hours, 12 hours and 24 hours, while the definition of the World Health Organization (WHO) is that death occurs within 6 hours of onset. Because sudden death is sudden and unpredictable, many people especially want to know how to find the early signs of sudden death while worrying, so as to prevent and avoid the occurrence of sudden death.
In fact, there are precursors to sudden death, and these signals must be paid attention to! Find it as soon as possible, and you can’t ignore it!
Clinically, although sudden death happens suddenly, except in extreme cases, many "alarms" will be given to us before problems occur. People at high risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should pay special attention to the following abnormal manifestations (signs of sudden death) to prevent sudden death.
Sudden aggravation of chest tightness
If you suddenly feel chest tightness after exercise in the near future, rest for a while can relieve it. This phenomenon suggests that you may have coronary heart disease.
The sudden symptoms indicate that the atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary artery is still unstable and may rupture at any time, leading to acute myocardial infarction.
If you have chest tightness symptoms occasionally in the past, the symptoms will become more frequent and more serious in the near future. It also shows that the plaques that were previously stable are now slightly damaged and will develop into large ones at any time, leading to the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction.
In this case, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible and have medication or surgery.
Frequent palpitation
If you feel that you have always been flustered for no reason recently, don’t be careless. Palpitation is most common in arrhythmia, and serious malignant arrhythmia can lead to the risk of sudden death.
Therefore, frequent palpitation attacks should be treated in time.
Sweating heavily.
Before a heart attack, you sweat a lot on your body for no reason, such as neck, back, scalp, palms and soles. This may be a signal from the myocardium. At this time, you should be vigilant and beware of sudden death. It is best to stop all activities immediately, take medicine in time, and call 120 immediately if necessary.
Amanita, syncope
Blackness refers to the clinical symptom that the eyes can’t see or see clearly when they look at things, which is manifested by blackness in front of their eyes. Syncope in patients with heart disease is an important precursor of sudden death. Most syncope is caused by the sudden slowdown or stop of heartbeat, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain.
Once you have unexplained syncope, you should be very vigilant and go to the hospital as soon as possible to find out the reason.
Extreme fatigue and tiredness
Before sudden death, the whole body will have a serious sense of powerlessness and even a feeling of dying, which is the last warning given by the body.
ache
Pain response is the most easily grasped and perceived signal among the symptoms of sudden death.
When you feel severe, tight and crushing pain in your chest and feel breathless, you should be on high alert.
Also, if patients with heart disease often feel pain in the throat, shoulders, neck, chin and arms, they should also pay attention to the signal of myocardial ischemia, because when the pain of myocardial ischemia is transmitted to the central nervous system of the brain, it will be reflected in the spinal cord segment at the same level.
Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to these cases of pain transfer and see a doctor in time.
Suddenly cold hands and feet
When the room temperature is normal and there are no other conditions, rubbing hands is mostly because after the heart has problems, the blood circulation becomes worse, the hands and feet are cold, and it seems to be "unconscious" to rub hands to keep warm, which is actually an alarm signal that the heart is about to have problems!
Recurrent gastrointestinal symptoms
Many patients with sudden cardiac death have recurrent gastrointestinal symptoms before their death, and many of them have no history of stomach trouble before their lives. This is one of the signals of heart attack. When these symptoms appear, timely rest can relieve discomfort, and if they are symptoms of heart disease, the above symptoms will not last for a long time, but will continue to be repeated.
Therefore, in the event of recurrent gastrointestinal discomfort, heart problems need to be taken into account.
As the saying goes, "Illness can last a hundred years". Let’s think about some people around us who are frail all the year round. They will always pay attention to their discomfort, but these young elites who have died suddenly are just the opposite. Because of their good health, they often get over it when they feel uncomfortable, but in the long run, they will be over-consumed and life-threatening.
Knowing the precursor of sudden death, people should check themselves to see if the above situation exists. If they find that they have the precursor of sudden death, they must seek medical attention in time and dial 120 if necessary.
Sudden death is also closely related to people’s living habits. Staying up late for a long time, playing games all night, lack of rest, uninterrupted working hours of the brain and heart, and heavy drinking are also the causes of sudden death.