title: 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.
authors.affiliation: From Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics; Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Pediatric Cardiology; Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.A.);Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, City (D.L.A.); andDepartment of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, MA (J.K.T.).
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ackerman
authors.affiliation: From Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics; Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Pediatric Cardiology; Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.A.);Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, City (D.L.A.); andDepartment of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, MA (J.K.T.).
authors.forename: Dianne L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Atkins
authors.affiliation: From Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics; Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Pediatric Cardiology; Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.A.);Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, City (D.L.A.); andDepartment of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, MA (J.K.T.). john.triedman@cardio.chboston.org.
authors.forename: John K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Triedman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019468:Disease Management; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012042:Registries; D055502:Secondary Prevention / Q000379:methods
keywords: congenital heart disease; death, sudden, cardiac; heart arrest; pediatrics; resuscitation