Just a spoonful of Demerol helps the medicine go down...

[centurian]

Sorry to be a pain here (no pun intended) but if the cause of death is an overdose of demerol - as an opiate the cause of death won't be cardiac arrest; it'll be respiratory failure (cf, if you overdose of morphine you don't die from a heart attack, you die because the lungs stop working).

Which results in a cardiact arrest...


"Cardiac arrest" is when the heart stops beating (pumping) for any cause.

A "heart attack" is a problem with the heart itself (and can often lead to a cardiac arrest).

Virtually all deaths are from "cardiac arrest".

You could argue that in the case of respiratory failure, the brain might die of oxygen starvation before the heart actually stops, but from the paramedics/doctors point of view, they are treating a stopped heart by the time they get to him.

[Menelaus]

Which results in a cardiact arrest...


"Cardiac arrest" is when the heart stops beating (pumping) for any cause.

A "heart attack" is a problem with the heart itself (and can often lead to a cardiac arrest).

Virtually all deaths are from "cardiac arrest".

You could argue that in the case of respiratory failure, the brain might die of oxygen starvation before the heart actually stops, but from the paramedics/doctors point of view, they are treating a stopped heart by the time they get to him.

Agreed. I'm being a pedant, for which I make precisely zero apology