2023-08-27 23:45:04
DECRYPTION – Experts around the world have tried to establish recommendations to better anticipate and react to these unexpected cardiac arrests. A difficult exercise.
An athlete who suddenly collapses during training or in competition, the victim of a heart that gives out without warning… Sudden death marks the spirits when it strikes a young person at the top of his form. But this is only the tip of the iceberg: each year in the world, 4 to 5 million people (40,000 in France) die of sudden cardiac arrest occurring outside the hospital. In nearly half of patients, it is the first manifestation of cardiovascular disease…
A public health problem “of considerable magnitude” who would be “responsible for about half of cardiac deaths and 15% to 20% of overall mortality”believe the members of a commission formed by the Lancet. In an article published this Sunday, around thirty experts from around the world from various disciplines (cardiology, clinical electrophysiology, emergency medicine, intensive care, genetics, pathology, forensic medicine, epidemiology, public health…)…
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