ABSTRACT
One of the most frightening events in a doctor’s career is dealing with cardiac arrest. Generally speaking, resuscitation should occur in any patient who collapses unexpectedly from an unknown cause. When a patient is admitted, there should be some general indication whether such a procedure should be carried out in the event of the heart going into asystole or ventricular fibrillation. It may be that, if a patient is very ill with cancer, it is inappropriate to try and resuscitate them. Once a patient has been observed to have a cardiac arrest, the ABC of cardiac arrest comes into being.
