The Causes and Impact of Heart Attacks in the American Society
The American Heart Association defines cardiac arrest as a sudden and severe disturbance of the heart's main job, which is to circulate blood throughout the body. As a result of the fact that it frequently affects patients with heart-related conditions as well as people without such diagnoses, this illness is fatal. One of the main causes of death in the United States is heart attack because it can impact anyone, regardless of their age or social standing. According to records, heart attacks alone cause close to a million fatalities each year in the United States. ("About Cardiac Arrest"). Heart attacks are very deadly because whenever they occur most especially in out of hospital situations, the result is usually the death or acute paralysis of the victims. Hence the there is need to study this health issue as to determine its likely causes in the American society. Other research has been carried out in this field were mostly developed to determine the rate of occurrence among different age barracks in the American society. However, there have been little controversies regarding the actual cause of heart attack within the USA. Hence this study is developed to close the research gap by looking at the specific causes of heart attacks or cardiac arrests in the America society. The study attempts to bridge the research gap by providing answers to this question; what are actual causes of heart attacks in the American society?
Rationale
The rationale for the study is based on the fact that heart attack is considered as one of the leading causes of death in American. Hence the need to understand the cause of the public issue provides a remedy. According to the American Heart Association more than 500,000 people die yearly as a result of in hospital and out of hospital cases of cardiac arrest. According to Abella, et al. (33) the rate of survival of cardiac arrest is diminishing as most people who have an arrest end of dead minutes after and some die on their way to a medical facility. Based on the findings of Edelson et al. (34) which claim that cardiac arrest is a menace to the society because in cases where victims do not end up dead, they end up paralyzed losing most of their body function. After an in-depth analysis of the proposition of these scholars, cardiac arrest is a vital topic that must be emphasized in the world of public health. Hence there is need to understand the cause of heart attacks in the America society. This understanding will serve as a means of remedying the situation by providing the society with the needed information as regarding the cause cardiac arrests.
Research methods
The research will make use of interviews as the medium of acquiring the data need of analysis. The research interview will be divided into two parts. First, there shall be an interview for medical practitioners in a bid to understand the like causes of cardiac arrests. The second interview will be developed to acquire information the families of victims and survivors of cardiac arrest in a bid to determine if the nature of their lifestyle was a factor that aids their cardiac arrest. The combination of this interview will provide a direction as to determine the actual causes of cardiac arrest in American.
Plan
The research will adopt the use of primary data i.e. the researcher will generate these data. It researcher will make use of two interview guides; one of which will be administered by medical practitioner mostly doctors and heads of medical institutions. The other interview guide will be socially inclined as it will be administered to the families of dead victims and lucky survivors of heart attacks. The data derived from the interview will be analyzed using content analysis; this method will be used to interpret the semantic contents of the interview results. Content analysis is very efficient when determining the in-depth analysis of respondent's opinion. It efficiently breaks downs response into meaningful units and assesses the characteristics of the message passed across by the respondents. The report of the research will be compiled with the aid of Microsoft Word document after the data has been effectively analyzed.
Projected Outcomes
The research seeks to understand the actual cause of cardiac arrest in the America society. It aims to understand if there are specific American societal factors that are responsible for the surge in the rates of cardiac arrest within the country. The study also seeks to understand if lifestyle and behavioral patterns could be a factor that has triggered the rates of cardiac arrest in the America society. A combination of the results of this finding will provide an answer to the cardiac arrests puzzle in America. The results of this research will be of use to other researchers who seek to understand the causes of heart attacks in the American society in a bid to recommending a solution to remedy the public health challenge.
Work Cited
"About Cardiac Arrest." Heart.Org, 2017, http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/CardiacArrest/About-Cardiac-Arrest_UCM_307905_Article.jsp#.WWNSdojyvIU.
Abella, Benjamin S., et al. "Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during in-hospital cardiac
arrest." Jama 293.3 (2005): 305-310.
Edelson, Dana P., et al. "Effects of compression depth and pre-shock pauses predict defibrillation
failure during cardiac arrest." Resuscitation 71.2 (2006): 137-145.
