Sudden cardiac death – modalities for risk stratification
Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 21 Nov, 2008
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More than 95% of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest die during the episode. 30-50% of sudden cardiac deaths that are due to coronary artery disease occur as the first cardiac event. Only one third of sudden cardiac death occur in patients with known coronary artery disease or risk markers. That means that we are unable [...]
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