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Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e
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Chapter 12. Sudden Cardiac Death
Sections: Sudden Cardiac Death: Introduction, Epidemiology, Causes of Sudden Cardiac Death, Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention, Rescue from Sudden Cardiac Death, References.
Topics Discussed: sudden cardiac death.
Excerpt:"Sudden cardiac death as a consequence of unexpected cardiac arrest claims
the lives of >310,000 adult Americans each year and accounts for approximately
63% of all deaths from cardiovascular causes.1 Despite advances
in resuscitation and EMS, only approximately 6% of all cardiac arrest victims
survive to leave the hospital neurologically intact. However, there
is substantial variability in the odds for survival among various geographic
locations, with published survival to hospital discharge for patients
with all initial rhythms ranging from 1% to 25%.2–4 This
chapter reviews the epidemiology and pathophysiology of sudden cardiac
death in adults and the strategies to prevent and treat the problem.
Sudden infant death syndrome and cardiac arrest in children are
discussed in Chapters 14, Resuscitation of Neonates; 112, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Apparent
Life-Threatening Event; and 15, Resuscitation
of Children, respectively...."
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