Psychological Distress After Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Its Impact on Recovery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

To summarize the prevalence, correlates, and health consequences of poor mental health in the increasingly sizable population of survivors of Sudden cardiac arrest (CA) and to describe current intervention research in this area.

Recent findings

After CA many patients report high psychological distress, including depression, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress. Emerging evidence suggests that distressed patients' attention may narrow such that anxious awareness of afferent cardiac signals e.g., changes in heart rate or blood pressure, becomes predominant and a cause for concerned, constant monitoring. This cardiac-specific anxiety followed by behavioral avoidance and physiological hyperreactivity may increase patients' already high risk of secondar

SUBMITTER: Agarwal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561080 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature