Nana Patekar dies at 75: Understanding cardiac arrest, CPR and those crucial minutes

Veteran actor Nana Patekar died on Thursday morning after suffering a severe cardiac arrest at his residence in Goa. The actor was 75 when he breathed his last. Cardiac arrest is a medical condition when your heart has stopped beating and blood is not being pumped around your body. It can happen without any warning.

“A cardiac arrest is different (from heart attack) since it is due to an electrical disorder causing the heart to stop beating effectively and thus cutting off the supply of blood to the brain and to other organs,” Dr Parin Sangoi, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai Central, tells indianexpress.com