Missing a big jackpot. Watching your team miss a point. It's enough to give you a heart attack. And according to cardiologist Richard Kerber, it just might. Kerber, UI professor of internal medicine, says that certain public places have been identified as likely locations for cardiac arrest to occur.
Airports are number one.
But airports aren't the only place where tensions are high and the adrenaline is flowing. Other cardiac-risk locations include sports arenas, golf courses, gyms, jails, gambling casinos, and airplanes themselves. 200,000 of those deaths occur before the patient reaches the hospital. Those people never benefit from hospital technology. When a person goes into cardiac arrest, normal heartbeats are replaced by ventricular fibrillation, an electrical rhythm characterized by chaotic activity.