Video Teaching

Sudden Cardiac Death

 Michel Doucet, M.D.

 

McGill University Health Center

Introduction: Dr. Thao Huynh

Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit M.U.H.C./M.G.H.

Recorded: M.U.H.C. June 1999

 

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REFERENCES:

 Slide #

 Title
 Derived from:

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Biological Model of Sudden death
 Myerburg, R. J., et al.: A biological approach to sudden cardiac death: Structure, function, and cause. Am. J. Cardiol. 63:1512

13

Predictors of Sudden Death
 Bigger JT, Am J Cardiol 57:8B, 1986.

15

Sudden Death Incidence and Total Events
 Myerburg, R. J., et al.: Sudden cardiac death: Structure, function and time-dependence of risk.
Circulation 85(Suppl. I):I-2, 1992

28

 GESICA Amiodarone and CHF
 From Doval HC et al. Randomized trial of low-dose amiodarone in severe congestive heart failure.Lancet 344:493,1994

 34

 Prevention of sudden death with long-term beta blockade following MI
 From Olsson, G., Wikstrand, J., Warnold, I., et al.: Metoprolol-induced reduction in postinfarction mortality: Pooled results from five double-blind randomized trials. Eur. Heart J. 13:28, 1992