Why the study?
The study aimed to identify the incidence of sudden cardiac death in adult patients under 49 years of age, including adolescents presenting with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to a tertiary care emergency department.
Sudden cardiac death in patients under 49 years accounts for 15% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, with low rates of bystander CPR and poor long-term survival.
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Single-center SCD incidence data in young adults warrant caution in generalization; hypothesis-generating for regional prevention research.
Maddali et al. (2023) studied this question.
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