2020 APHRS/HRS expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest, and of their families

• Published in: Journal of arrhythmia Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 481 - 534
• Main Authors: Stiles, Martin K., Wilde, Arthur A. M., Abrams, Dominic J., Ackerman, Michael J., Albert, Christine M., Behr, Elijah R., Chugh, Sumeet S., Cornel, Martina C., Gardner, Karen, Ingles, Jodie, James, Cynthia A., Juang, Jyh‐Ming Jimmy, Kääb, Stefan, Kaufman, Elizabeth S., Krahn, Andrew D., Lubitz, Steven A., MacLeod, Heather, Morillo, Carlos A., Nademanee, Koonlawee, Probst, Vincent, Saarel, Elizabeth V., Sacilotto, Luciana, Semsarian, Christopher, Sheppard, Mary N., Shimizu, Wataru, Skinner, Jonathan R., Tfelt‐Hansen, Jacob, Wang, Dao Wu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Brugada syndrome; Cardiac arrest; cardiac genetics; Cardiac patients; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia; defibrillator; expert consensus statement; genetic counseling; Guideline; guidelines; Health counseling; Heart beat; long QT syndrome; postmortem; resuscitation; sudden arrhythmic death syndrome; sudden cardiac death; sudden unexplained death; ventricular arrhythmia; ventricular arrhythmia; Brugada syndrome; long QT syndrome; sudden cardiac death; cardiac arrest; genetic counseling; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia; postmortem; guidelines; resuscitation; sudden arrhythmic death syndrome; expert consensus statement; defibrillator; cardiac genetics; sudden unexplained death

This international multidisciplinary document intends to provide clinicians with evidence‐based practical patient‐centered recommendations for evaluating patients and decedents with (aborted) sudden cardiac arrest and their families. The document includes a framework for the investigation of the fam...