Cardiac Arrest Analysis

A cardiac arrest can be defined as a sudden, or sometimes temporary, cessation (ending) of functions of the heart. There are several individuals that each year participate in long-distance running races, and as of 2010 there were about two million individuals running in long distance races each year; however, this number will keep increasing year by year. Some of these racers after they run their marathon or half-marathon have what has been determined as post-race cardiac dysfunction. This is where Dr Kim and his team of researchers determine different cardiac arrest characteristics in marathon and half-marathon runners between January of 2000 and May of 2010.
A nonprofit running organization called Running USA, gave Dr Kim and his group of researchers a series of statistics for each year that was being studied. The statistics were computerized …show more content…
I liked how the article was divided by section (Methods, results, discussion, etc.) and also I liked that the researchers provided graphs to show what they were talking about.
I felt like more information was needed in order to calculate the results such as dividing the runners by sex and age because not everyone was the same physical characteristics. This article needed more information to work with because they only had the medical history of 31 of the runners and a study would not be very good if it’s only done on a small group of people.
If I was doing the study, as I said before I would divide the runners in groups by sex and age in order to better understand why these individuals have post-marathon or half-marathon cardiac arrests. I would have liked to know the sex and age of the runners that had passed away; I think that would have been very interesting to know and to help the rest of the runners that have a history of cardiovascular diseases in their