# Emergency and acute care

Front · id `cardio:front-emergency-and-acute-care` · Cardiovascular Atlas · release `f6f6f1b6f50379ed` (public)

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## In plain language

Pages about what happens in the first minutes and hours of a heart attack or a cardiac arrest, from the call for help to the first treatments.

## Technical summary

Navigation grouping for emergency response and acute treatment of heart attack and cardiac arrest, filed here with part\_of. It is a way to browse. It makes no statement about whether anything in it works.

## Connected pages

- Includes: Unequal bystander CPR after cardiac arrest in the community (`cardio:bottleneck-bystander-cpr-gaps`)
- Includes: Heart attack warning signs and when to call for help (`cardio:heart-attack-warning-signs`)
- Includes: Heart attack (myocardial infarction) (`cardio:myocardial-infarction`)
- Includes: Sudden cardiac arrest (`cardio:sudden-cardiac-arrest`)
- Includes: Deliver AEDs by drone before the ambulance arrives (`cardio:idea-drone-aed-delivery`)
- Includes: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (`cardio:cpr`)
- Includes: Emergency stenting for ST-elevation heart attack (primary PCI) (`cardio:primary-pci-for-stemi`)
- Includes: Temperature control after cardiac arrest (`cardio:temperature-control-after-arrest`)
- Includes: HeartStart OnSite and Home defibrillators (`cardio:heartstart-onsite-home`)
- Includes: Automated external defibrillator (AED) (`cardio:automated-external-defibrillator`)

## Provenance

Content hash: b74d55a3f0985b52659c45f1467f102ae0dd506fc37c0c7d370aeb5baa23ea3c
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: Not recorded