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ECG Screening For Sudden Cardiac Death in an Asymptomatic Pediatric Cohort

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Purpose: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is rare but devastating. ECG screening for diseases that predispose to SCD is controversial, and there is currently no standard of care or consensus in… Click to show full abstract

Purpose: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is rare but devastating. ECG screening for diseases that predispose to SCD is controversial, and there is currently no standard of care or consensus in the United States. If screening ECGs are performed, patients are often referred to a cardiologist’s office based on abnormal ECG machine readings; these referrals may or may not be warranted. The primary objectives of our study were (1) to assess the accuracy of ECG machine readings in an asymptomatic pediatric cohort when compared to review by a pediatric cardiologist and (2) to describe a unique model of SCD screening and the cardiac diseases detected by …

Keywords: asymptomatic pediatric; cardiac death; sudden cardiac; ecg screening; pediatric cohort

Journal Title: Pediatrics
Year Published: 2020

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