A gym security camera has captured the moment in which a 28-year-old woman die suddenly while exercising. The tragic event has occurred in Ecuador and the young woman has been identified as Betsy Dayana Jaramillo Ramírez.
In the images it is seen how the victim is performing a couple of squats with a weight. At one point in the exercise she stops and almost immediately falls to the ground. Several colleagues quickly approached to try to help her until the emergency services arrived, although they were unsuccessful.
After that, the woman is urgently transferred to the Santa Teresita Hospital and the doctors can only confirm the death.
The cause of death is unknown, but the first hypothesis being considered is that he suffered a heart attack.
As confirmed by TC Noticias, the woman’s body was laid to rest in the Primero de Mayo park in Santa Rosa and was later buried in the local cemetery.
What is sudden death?
The Spanish Heart Foundation details that the sudden death “occurs in the first hour from the onset of symptoms“. Its main cause is a cardiac arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation, which causes the heart loses its capacity to contract in an organized way.
“This arrhythmia produces a chaotic cardiac electrical activity that it is not capable of generating an effective heartbeat, therefore the heart stops pumping blood, blood pressure drops to zero and the blood supply to the brain and the rest of the body is cancelled. When circulation stops, oxygen and nutrients stop reaching the organs, which quickly begin to suffer,” says the foundation.
The sudden death victim first loses his pulse, and within a few seconds, he also loses consciousness and the ability to breathe. “If you don’t get immediate attention, the consequence is death within minutes.”
In many cases the measures of cardiopulmonary resuscitation they can make the arrhythmia disappear and the patient recover. “If fortunately this happens, we will be facing a ‘resuscitated sudden death’,” explains the agency.