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SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST: sudden, unexpected loss of heart function TRANSMYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION (TMR): a surgical
in which the heart abruptly and without warning stops working as a result procedure in which a laser is used to create small channels in the heart
of an internal electrical system malfunction of the heart. Any death where muscle, improving blood flow in the heart.
the sole cause of death shown on the death certificate is cardiovascular THIRD-DEGREE BURNS: an area of tissue damage in which there is
collapse, sudden cardiac arrest, cardiac arrest, or sudden cardiac death destruction of the entire epidermis and underlying dermis and that covers
shall be deemed to be sudden cardiac arrest for purposes of the policy. more than 10 percent of total body surface. The damage must be caused
Sudden cardiac arrest is not a heart attack.
by heat, electricity, radiation, or chemicals. This does not include skin
SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM: a abrasions caused by falling on and scraping skin on asphalt, concrete, or
surgical procedure to prevent aneurysm rupture consisting of opening the any other surface.
abdomen, finding the aorta, and removing (excising) the aneurysm.