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Episode # 208: Sudden Cardiac Death in Sport

Barbell Medicine Podcast

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Sports Related Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes

The most common causes are congenital structural heart diseases like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and anomalous origin of the coronary artery. In a cohort of over 6 million military recruits in the United States, there were 108 sports related sudden cardiac deaths that occurred as far as the cause. These are extremely dangerous and require immediate action, particularly if they're sustained. And so when anybody goes into these heart rhythms and it is sustained, the most important thing by far is to get them back into a heart rhythm which can effectively get blood out of the heart into those vital organs.

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