A cardiologist’s view on sudden cardiac death - from Heart
10 Dec, 12 | by BMJ Group
Of course it’s not just sports physicians who are concerned with sudden cardiac death, our colleagues at sister journal Heart have also been debating the issue.
In a Heart podcast from earlier this year Christopher Burrell (consultant cardiologist at the Southwest Cardiothoracic Centre, Plymouth) asks Sanjay Sharma (professor at the CRY Inherited Cardiac Diseases and Sports Cardiology Unit, St Georges Hospital) about the conditions which cause SCD, what to look out for on an athlete’s electrocardiogram or echocardiogram, and whether or not we should be screening.
