Sudden Cardiac Arrest during Participation in Competitive Sports.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest during participation in sports activities remains unknown. Preparticipation screening programs aimed at preventing sudden cardiac arrest during sports activities are thought to be able to identify at-risk athletes; however, the efficacy of these programs remains controversial. We sought to identify all sudden cardiac arrests that occurred during participation in sports activities within a specific region of Canada and to determine their causes.

Methods

In this retrospective study, we used the Rescu Epistry cardiac arrest database (which contains records of every cardiac arrest attended by paramedics in the network region) to identify all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occurred from 2009 through 2014 in persons 12 to 45

SUBMITTER: Landry CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5726886 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature