Pediatric screening for sudden cardiac arrest guidelines
The American Academy of Pediatrics just updated the 2012 guidelines on the risk assessment for sudden cardiac arrest or death in the young, suggesting this screening should be a routine one as opposed to a targeted one for those entering competitive athletics (see sudden cardiac deaths AAPpolicy2021 in dropbox or https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/148/1/e2021052044.full.pdf Review: -- sudden cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death are associated with an array of underlying cardiac conditions, including cardiomyopathies (hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive, arrhythmogenic), channelopathies (long and short QT syndromes, Brugada syndrome, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, idiopathic ventricular fibrillation), several congenital heart diseases, WPW, Commotio Cordis from a sudden high impact to the chest wall, anomalous coronary arteries, aortopathies (Marfan’s, bicuspid aortic valve with aortic ...