Every time an athlete dies on the field there is renewed interest in the controversial topic of preparticipation screening. One key limitation in the field is that there is little or no good data about what constitutes a healthy heart in athletes. Now a new study published in JAMA Cardiology provides an extraordinarily detailed look…
Counterintuitive Advice About Staying Alive After A Heart Attack
September 21, 2014 by 1 Comment
… An interventional cardiologist– the cardiologists who put in stents and usually treat heart attack patients in the first few hours– asked an electrophysiologist– the cardiologists who treat arrhythmias– whether wearable defibrillators should be used post-MI. Here’s what that electrophysiologist, Edward J. Schloss, the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, replied….
No Surprise: Smoking and Sudden Cardiac Death Closely Tied
December 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
Although cigarette smoking has long been linked to cardiovascular (CV) disease and sudden cardiac death (SCD), the precise contribution of smoking, and the effect of smoking discontinuation, on SCD has not been clear. Now a new report from the Nurses’ Health Study published in Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology provides new clarity about the relationship between smoking…
Half the News That’s Fit To Print: NY Times On ECG Screening For Student Athletes
May 1, 2012 by 6 Comments
There may be no more horrifying medical catastrophe than the sudden death of a young athlete on the playing field in front of a large crowd of friends, family, and community. But it’s also a dizzyingly complex subject with no easy solutions. Experts are divided. The American Heart Association recently reaffirmed that it does not recommend…
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