Sudden Deaths Among Chinese Physicians.

IntroductIon Sudden deaths are always an important topic, which catches physicians and health professionals’ attention. Physicians and clinical scientists have reported their findings of unexpected deaths concerning about infants, children, young athletes, soldiers, adults with chronic diseases, and elderly people in thousands, if not millions of publications.[1,2] However, there are no existing clinical reports about sudden deaths among physicians and medical staff. Recently, sudden deaths in Chinese physicians, anesthesiologists in particular, become the headlines in media and news. Chinese physicians are turning into the high‐risk professionals of sudden death during the hospital duty hours. According to an official survey, there are a total of 984,926 medical institutions and more than 97 million physicians in China by the end of 2014, while the annual medical graduates and postgraduates amount nearly 600,000 (http://yyh. dxy.cn/article/105034). With the rapid growth of Chinese economy and the radical upheaval of expanding hospital size, sudden deaths in Chinese physicians become critical social issues and contemporary health problems, challenging medical education and hospital management. Hereby, we have investigated the issues and problems of sudden deaths in Chinese physicians for the purpose of self‐alert, self‐protection, and self‐life‐saving.