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What Causes A Acute Heart Attack?
Question: I awoke to my husband with water bubbling from this mouth almost like his lungs were full of water was he alive or gone at the point ? he later was diagnosed that he suffered a fatal attack
Brief Answer:
I would explain as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
I am sorry about your husband!
The situation you describe , it is likely to have been an acute pulmonary edema, resulting from an important acute heart attack, complicated with acute heart failure.
Pulmonary edema is commonly an expression of rapid onset of acute heart failure, which when there is no possibility of a prompt medical intervention, may lead unequivocally to cardiac arrest and death.
Not rarely these fatal consequences are inevitable even when the patient is under full medical assistance in hospital settings.
So, returnin to your question, I would explain that as your husband was getting bubbles out of mouth, he has been experiencing in reality an advanced and most severe form of acute heart failure and thus severe pulmonary edema.
Hope to have clarified some of your uncertainties!
Feel free to ask any other questions whenever you need!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
I would explain as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
I am sorry about your husband!
The situation you describe , it is likely to have been an acute pulmonary edema, resulting from an important acute heart attack, complicated with acute heart failure.
Pulmonary edema is commonly an expression of rapid onset of acute heart failure, which when there is no possibility of a prompt medical intervention, may lead unequivocally to cardiac arrest and death.
Not rarely these fatal consequences are inevitable even when the patient is under full medical assistance in hospital settings.
So, returnin to your question, I would explain that as your husband was getting bubbles out of mouth, he has been experiencing in reality an advanced and most severe form of acute heart failure and thus severe pulmonary edema.
Hope to have clarified some of your uncertainties!
Feel free to ask any other questions whenever you need!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Does that mean at the point of the bubbling he had already died ? I am trying to figure out if when I awoke if the bubbling meant he was already gone ?
Brief Answer:
My answer as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello again!
The fact that she was bubbling, means that at the best scenario he may have been at an agonal state and the worst scenario he may have just died (which means that his acute heart failure was complicated with cardiac arrest).
You should know that these are just suppositions. We can not know for sure this any more. A cardiac ECG and cardiac auscultation at the moment would have been the best tools to answer your dilemma.
Coming to this point, I would like to let you know that whichever could have been (agonal state or cardiac arrest), one thing is sure : What your husband has experiences when you saw him with bubbling out of his month, represents an almost irreversible condition with a very low likelihood to have been successfully treated even in the hospital settings.
Please let me know if you have any further uncertainties!
Regards,
Dr. Iliri
My answer as follows:
Detailed Answer:
Hello again!
The fact that she was bubbling, means that at the best scenario he may have been at an agonal state and the worst scenario he may have just died (which means that his acute heart failure was complicated with cardiac arrest).
You should know that these are just suppositions. We can not know for sure this any more. A cardiac ECG and cardiac auscultation at the moment would have been the best tools to answer your dilemma.
Coming to this point, I would like to let you know that whichever could have been (agonal state or cardiac arrest), one thing is sure : What your husband has experiences when you saw him with bubbling out of his month, represents an almost irreversible condition with a very low likelihood to have been successfully treated even in the hospital settings.
Please let me know if you have any further uncertainties!
Regards,
Dr. Iliri
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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