Patients who survive a heart attack often need coordinated care to address the mental, not just physical, aftermath.

A cardiac cycle lasts about 0.8 seconds, or 800 milliseconds. (A millisecond is one one-thousandth of a second.) Commotio cordis takes place within a 20- to 40-millisecond window of the cardiac cycle.

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