The shocking stats – Cardiac arrest doesn’t only happen to old people. Every week in the UK, 12 seemingly fit and healthy young people, aged 35 years and under, die from Young, Sudden Cardiac Death or YSCD. The definition of young sudden cardiac death Sudden cardiac death describes unexpected and immediate fatality from a heart problem within 12 hours of apparently normal health. In fact some young cardiac deaths are so unexpected and without warning they are mistakenly attributed to drowning or road accidents. Sudden death What adds to the shock and distress of YSCD is in the vast majority
Sudden cardiac arrest in the young and the simple screening to avoid them as seen on The Hippocratic Post.