328 Targetting sudden cardiac death: improving prediction

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Purpose: Incidence rates and causes of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the .... Methods: A population-based registry was established in May 2011 using mul-.
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Targetting sudden cardiac death: improving prediction

identified in the pre-hospital setting, easy to obtain by a non physician phone dispatcher. The identification of those SCD predictors could allow a quicker intervention and a faster resuscitation on high risk patients.

derlying etiology was Brugada Syndrome (30,4%), followed by Cathecolaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (17,3%) and Long QT syndrome (13%). The way to reach the diagnosis and cumulative diagnostic rate of each sequential step of the protocol is summarized in table 1.

1741 | BENCH Nationwide study on sudden cardiac death in Danes aged 1-49 years

Table 1. Diagnostic yield of each sequential step of the protocol

B. Risgaard 1 , B.G. Winkel 1 , R. Jabbari 1 , O. Ingemann-Hansen 2 , J.L. Thomsen 3 , G.L. Ottesen 4 , H. Bundgaard 1 , S. Hausoe 1 , A.G. Holst 1 , J. Tfelt-Hansen 1 . 1 Rigshospitalet, Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, 2142, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2 Department of Forensic Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; 3 Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 4 Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Brugada S Long QT Short QT CPVT HCM AC Cumulative diagnosis (%)

Purpose: Incidence rates and causes of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the young have varied markedly in previous studies. The aim of this first nationwide study was to identify the causes of SCD in persons aged 1-49 years and to estimate the incidence rate using both autopsied and non-autopsied cases. Methods: All deaths in persons aged 1-49 years in 2007-2009 were included (population 3.4 million). Death certificates were reviewed independently and SCD cases were identified. We defined SCD in autopsied cases as the sudden, natural unexpected death of cardiac or unknown cause; in unwitnessed cases as a person last seen alive and functioning normally