If you had to choose between cardiac arrest and heart attack, you’d choose heart attack. Some people are wrongly saying Michael Jackson died of a heart attack, but that’s incorrect. Cardiac arrest and heart attack aren’t interchangeable terms.

While immediate medical attention is important for heart attacks, it’s even more critical for cardiac arrest. That’s because cardiac arrest involves the sudden loss of heart function. The heart stops beating and may have uncoordinated contractions.
According to the American Heart Association, “brain death and permanent death start to occur in just 4 to 6 minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest.” That’s not a …read more