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Cardiac Screening of Young Athletes: a Practical Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention.

Dhutia, H; MacLachlan, H (2018) Cardiac Screening of Young Athletes: a Practical Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med, 20 (10). p. 85. ISSN 1092-8464 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11936-018-0681-4
SGUL Authors: MacLachlan, Hamish

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Abstract

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: We aim to report on the current status of cardiovascular screening of athletes worldwide and review the up-to-date evidence for its efficacy in reducing sudden cardiac death in young athletes. RECENT FINDINGS: A large proportion of sudden cardiac death in young individuals and athletes occurs during rest with sudden arrhythmic death syndrome being recognised as the leading cause. The international recommendations for ECG interpretation have reduced the false-positive ECG rate to 3% and reduced the cost of screening by 25% without compromising the sensitivity to identify serious disease. There are some quality control issues that have been recently identified including the necessity for further training to guide physicians involved in screening young athletes. Improvements in our understanding of young sudden cardiac death and ECG interpretation guideline modification to further differentiate physiological ECG patterns from those that may represent underlying disease have significantly improved the efficacy of screening to levels that may make screening more attractive and feasible to sporting organisations as a complementary strategy to increased availability of automated external defibrillators to reduce the overall burden of young sudden cardiac death.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: Athlete, Cardiomyopathy, ECG, Pre-participation cardiovascular screening, Sports cardiology, Sudden cardiac death, Cardiovascular System & Hematology
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS)
Journal or Publication Title: Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med
ISSN: 1092-8464
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
October 2018Published
28 August 2018Published Online
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0
PubMed ID: 30155696
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/110150
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11936-018-0681-4

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