Does your heart stop when you faint?

Question

I fainted today, while I was drowning blood, i have been wearing a heart monitor and that showed that my heart stoped for 15 seconds and the doctor said it is normal because when you faint your heart stops. Is that true?

Answer 1

I don't know your medical History If your heart monitor said it did than that is a problem did he say the name of the rhythm but it is possible in my 29 years of experience i have seen it twice and it was a arrhythmia

Answer 2

I think the doc may have been trying to simplify the explanation. Fainting is caused by a rapid drop in blood pressure that deprives the brain of blood (and oxygen carried in the blood). Fainting can occur from a sudden dilation (increased diameter) of the arteries without any change in the pulse rate, or a slowing of the pulse rate, or some combination of the two. There's a big difference between having a long pause between heart beats (like 15 seconds) and the heart actually stopping. Between heart beats, the electrical activity in the heart is not actually stopped - its just slowed down. Technically speaking, the heart isn't stopped unless the electrical activity stops. It seems unlikely that the electrical activity in your heart stopped entirely unless they revived you with an injection of atropine or epinepherine, but apparently the monitor showed that you went 15 seconds between heartbeats, and that's a long time.

Answer 3

Might be if your doctor said... But i know that when you faint oxygen still flows and you still breath soo if your heart stops... how will you breath? Good question maybe someone else knows?

Answer 4

you were drowning in blood??????

Answer 5

No