Can you put yourself in cardiac arrest?

Question

Or is that impossible.

I saw it in a movie and wanted to know if it was possible

Answer 1

I am not sure if you mean - can you administer a substance to yourself that would induce a cardiac arrest OR by thinking about it real hard, being in emotional distress, or by performing some extraordinary physical activity, could you induce cardiac arrest?

You could potentially administer any number of substances that would cause the heart to go into an arrhythmia, or go too fast, or stop...all potentially precipitating an arrest. This could be done by mouth or by IV or via electricity.

In terms of making it happen by running too hard or having an emotional event. In short, you would need to have some heart disease there already in order for this to happen. Therefore if you had a young healthy heart, it would be virtually impossible to induce a cardiac arrest by anything you did or by any amount of emotional distress.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Induce Cardiac Arrest

Answer 4

I mean. I'm not sure if it's COMMON.

But I have some problem where I have relatively frequent heart attacks and the fastest way I stop them is to stop my own heart.

My heart beats extremely hard and keeps gaining speed, so I lay down, breathe in as far as I can and hold my breath. After maybe a couple seconds, I can definetely feel my heart had stopped and is still for...I dont know, about 3 seconds? And then it starts again with 1 heavy beat and then slow steady beats and returns to normal.

Its pretty normal for me, atleast, to put myself in cardiac arrest for a moment.

I cant say this is healthy at all. Because I dont know. I cant actually find any other thing online where this is common, and both heart attacks and cardiac arrest are apparently bad.

But I can. And it helps me atleast.

Answer 5

You can. If you stroke the side or you neck or push down on it hard you can interfere with blood flow if you did this long enough you could probably have a heart attack but it is more likely that you would pass out before this happened. Either way you probably would want to do this.

Answer 6

Impossible, although students of Eastern Mysteries can sloew their heart beat down to ridiculous levels like just a few beats a minute,,,,;

Answer 7

1- Get a car battery.
2- Attach one cable to the negative pole and one to the positive pole and use your body as conductor between the two.
3- Voila!

Answer 8

people do it every day !!!! but only by strong emotion-u know,aunt betty hears news of her husbands sudden death at wal-mart,and she has a heart attack.or james is stuck in traffic for hours,puts in a rough day at work,loses a deal,then fights with his unruly teenager.that night,james wakes up at 3 am with chest pains.thats the only way u would "deliberately" do it.

Answer 9

I'm sure there are a few people who have enough control over their involuntary nervous system that they could do it; however, for most of us, it's not possible.

Answer 10

Of course you can. If you eat unhealthy and smoke your whole life, is that you harming yourself or an act of God?