Sudden cardiac arrest in an athlete is often attributable to physical activity that is, paradoxically, endured to enhance the strength and survivability of the athlete. This paradox beckons a more comprehensive collective understanding of the impact exercise imparts on health. While rare, sudden ...
Eye on America: Cardiac arrest in athletes and more Following the on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, we find out what parents should know about cardiac arrest in young athletes. We also sit down at the dinner table for food and conversation about raising a multicultural fa...
The decision to initiate lipid lowering therapy in young people, particularly elite athletes, can be complicated. Without accurate prognostic tools for this population, the time course for coronary artery disease (CAD) may be overestimated. We present a complex case of a young patient with hyperlipi...
While cardiac arrest in athletes may not always make headlines, it occurs more often than many realize, Gounder said. "It really hits the headlines when it's somebody famous, like Damar Hamlin, like Bronny James. But this is certainly something that happens," Gounder said. A study by re...
due to the high public profile of competitive athletes.1–4For centuries it was a mystery why cardiac arrest should occur in vigorous athletes, who had previously achieved extraordinary exercise performance without complaining of any symptoms. The cause was generally ascribed to myocardial infarction, ...
Cardiac arrestis a leading cause of death that affects more than a million individuals worldwide every year[1]. According toepidemiological data, the annual incidence of Emergency Medical Services-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is 38 per 100,000 population, while the reported incidence of ...
The stories make headlines and strike fear in the hearts of runners who read them. Athletes—often young and seemingly healthy—die suddenly at races, during training runs, or in the off hours between them. Often, the cause is sudden cardiac arrest, which occurs when the heart stops beating...
RELATED:Could Cardiac Genetic Screening Decrease the Risk of Sudden Death for Athletes? Understanding Commito Cordis Returning to the case of Damar Hamlin, when he first collapsed on the field, the training and medical staff quickly recognized that he was in cardiac arrest and began administering CP...
minutes."According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in young athletes in America.AAP estimates 2,000 people under 25 die from this condition every year in comparison to sports concussions, which result in at least one death a yea...
The sudden deaths of prominent athletes in the USA and abroad have drawn intense attention in the media and bewildered the public to SCD in sports. In this chapter, the author discusses the effect of athletics on the ECG and cardiac echocardiographic parameters, the epidemiology of SCD in the ...