Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young
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Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young
Abstract
Although the occurrence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in a young person is a rare event, it is traumatic and often widely publicized. In recent years, SCD in this population has been increasingly seen as a public health and safety issue. This review presents current knowledge relevant to the epidemiology of SCD and to strategies for prevention, resuscitation, and identification of those at greatest risk. Areas of active research and controversy include the development of best practices in screening, risk stratification approaches and postmortem evaluation, and identification of modifiable barriers to providing better outcomes after resuscitation of young SCD patients. Institution of a national registry of SCD in the young will provide data that will help to answer these questions.
Keywords: congenital heart disease; death, sudden, cardiac; heart arrest; pediatrics; resuscitation.
© 2016 American Heart Association, Inc.
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