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This review describes normal resting electrocardiographic variants in young athletes to prevent excessive referral to cardiologists and assist in making sound decisions regarding clearance to exercise.
Understanding normal resting ECG variants in young athletes helps prevent unnecessary cardiology referrals during pre-participation screening.
May streamline ECG interpretation in athlete screening; leaves open need for prospective validation across populations.
UNLABELLED: With a growing awareness of the tragedy of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in young athletes, more extensive pre-participation examinations are being performed prior to competitive sport participation. In addition to a history and physical, young athletes often have a 12-lead resting electrocardiogram (ECG) to better identify heart disease associated with SCA. Complicating this process is that certain "abnormal" resting ECG findings are considered normal variants in healthy children and young adults. The ability to recognize these normal variants is often useful in preventing excessive referral of patients to cardiologists for evaluation of resting ECG's that are benign variations of normal and in making sound decisions regarding appropriate clearance to exercise. This review describes these normal variants.
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John P. Higgins (2008) conducted a review in Normal resting electrocardiographic variants. 12-lead resting electrocardiogram (ECG) was evaluated. This review describes normal resting electrocardiographic variants in young athletes to prevent excessive referral to cardiologists and assist in making sound decisions regarding clearance to exercise.
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