The findings were published March 30 in Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Clinical Electrophysiology. The risk assessment algorithm “consists of 13 clinical, electrocardiogram, and echocardiographic variables that could put a patient at higher risk of treatable sudden cardiac arrest,” according to the journal.
“All sudden cardiac arrest is not the same,” stated Sumeet Chugh, MD, director of the institute’s Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention and lead author of the study. “Until now, no prior research has distinguished between potentially treatable sudden cardiac arrest versus untreatable forms that cause death in almost all instances.”
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