心源性猝死,即心脏性猝死(sudden cardiac death,简称“SCD”)系指由于各种心脏原因所致的突然死亡。可发生于原来有或无心脏病的患者中,常无任何危及生命的前期表现,突然意识丧失,在急性症状出现后1小时内死亡,属非外伤性自然死亡,特征为出乎意料的迅速死亡。91%以上的SCD是心律失常所致,而某些非心电意外的情况如心脏...
Sudden death can be, in addition toacute myocardial infarctionandunstable angina, one of the clinical presentations ofacute coronary syndrome.Sudden cardiac deathis defined as non-traumatic, unexpected death within 1 hour of the onset of symptoms or, if unwitnessed, within 24 hours of being ...
As already explained in the methodology section, it is difficult to ascertain whether the death was directly related to the vehicle’s driver or not when using ICD-10 codes with transport accidents. It is also impossible to distinguish all possible primary causes of drowning on the basis of ...
However, data has not been precise in sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) estimates. SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion and an ICD-10 diagnosis (R95.9), but to what extent this diagnosis is being accurately applied has not been investigated in Denmark.A genetic screening for mutations ...
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD):For people whose risk factors put them at great risk for sudden cardiac death, an ICD may be inserted as a preventive treatment. An ICD is a small machine similar to a pacemaker that is designed to correct arrhythmias. It detects and then corrects ...
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD):For people whose risk factors put them at great risk for sudden cardiac death, an ICD may be inserted as a preventive treatment. An ICD is a small machine similar to a pacemaker that is designed to correct arrhythmias. It detects and then corrects ...
ImportanceApproximately 350,000 Americans still die of sudden cardiac death each year. This exceeds the number of patients who die annually from stroke, lung cancer, breast cancer and AIDS combined.ObjectiveThis review aims to trace the history of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) with re...
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is described as death within one hour, if observed, from the onset of symptoms, and within 24 h of being alive and well if not observe. Study population includes 3705 men and 4446 women, aged ≥ 30 years. Multiv
The effect of altitude on the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been reported previously, but with conflicting findings. We aimed to examine whether the risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) varies with altitude in the United States. Data from the Centers for Disease Con...
AIMS: A retrospective post-mortem analysis was undertaken to determine the aetiology of sudden cardiac death (SCD) amongst individuals aged <or=35 years who died in Ireland in 2005. METHODS AND RESULTS: The Central Statistics Office registered 122 deaths amongst those aged <or=35 that were possi...