Sudden cardiac arrest

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Sudden cardiac arrest during sports.

Exercise can trigger an acute cardiac event which may precipitate sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). On the other hand, exercise is important for physical fitness and prevention of cardiovascular disease, and the medical community should therefore inform the general public of the health benefits of sports and exercise. At the same time, the public are exposed to alarmist mass media coverage of athlet...

Founder Mutation Genotyping and Sudden Cardiac Arrest

After the Human Genome Project, a resulting explosion of genetic information has led to the identification of thousands of new disease-susceptibility genes. This has created the dream of genetic medicine, or so-called precision medicine, where the identification of pathogenic mutations would lead to the early diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. This ideal has no more important impl...

Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Athletic Medicine.

OBJECTIVE: To emphasize the importance of decreasing the response time by a trained target responder to increase the survival rate among athletes experiencing sudden cardiac arrest at an athletic event. BACKGROUND: Death due to sudden cardiac arrest that is witnessed is preventable in many cases. However, most people who experience this condition die because of a prolonged response time from on...

Sudden cardiac arrest and automated external defibrillators.

major (approximately 66–94.5%) cause of sudden death worldwide.1–4 The remaining causes of sudden death are noncardiac conditions, including epilepsy, alcohol abuse, pulmonary embolism, trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and unknown etiology.5 The annual occurrence of sudden death is 350,000–450,000 in the United States, 10.5 per 100,000 population in United Kingdom and 37 per 100,000 in Japan. ...