Cardiac Arrest in Healthy Young Adults!

When an individual’s heart suddenly stops pumping blood, cardiac arrest happens.

Heart rhythm disorder (most common in athletes) or structural heart disease such as coronary artery disease or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (abnormally thickened heart muscle) are main causes of sudden cardiac arrest.

High blood pressure, diabetes, genetic cardiac disease such as long QT syndrome are some of the risk factors of sudden cardiac arrest.

This JAMA Patient Page describes causes, risk factors, evaluation and treatment, and bystander instructions for cardiac arrest in apparently healthy young adults.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2833429

https://sciencemission.com/Cardiac-Arrest-in--Healthy-Young-Adults