SCA Awareness Month 2024
October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Awareness Month.
October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Awareness Month.
Educate, Empower, Save Lives
October is Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Awareness Month. Join HRS this October and beyond as we seek to:
- Increase public awareness of the signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest
- Promote early recognition of SCA and encourage immediate action
- Educate individuals about the importance of learning CPR and using an automated external defibrillator (AED)
- Encourage research and advancements in the prevention and treatment of SCA
To help you educate and empower your patients, the Society has curated a special collection of patient and clinician resources regarding SCA:
Resources for Your Patients
Clinician Resources
HRX 2024
Cardiac Arrest, the Next Digital Health Frontier
Although a large body of research has succeeded in identifying certain patient populations at high risk for sudden cardiac arrest, the vast majority are not identified prior to the occurrence of sudden cardiac arrest. This session will address the next frontier for digital health – helping to overcome the challenges in identification, rapid response, and treatment out of hospital cardiac arrest. The panel included key stakeholders: emergency and electrophysiology physicians, tech developers and researchers, those at the federal and legislative level, as well as large tech companies to help foster a discussion focusing on how to drive the digital space in forward to ultimately help improve OHCA outcomes.
The Beat Webinar Series
Episode 7: Sudden Cardiac Death: What you need to Know
The Lead Podcast
Episode 55: Dynamic Electrocardiogram changes are a novel risk marker for sudden Cardiac Death
Episode 41: Association Between Number of Volunteer Responders and Interventions Before Ambulance Arrival for Cardiac Arrest
Episode 30: A Discussion of Return-to-Play for Elite Athletes With Genetic Heart Diseases Predisposing to Sudden Cardiac Death
EP on EP
Episode 106: Workup and Therapy in Idiopathic Cardiac Arrest Patients
Episode 53: Sudden Cardiac Arrest from EP Testing to ICDs
Episode 9: Mitral Valve Prolapse and Sudden Cardiac Death
Heart Rhythm 2024 On Demand
Get access to 200+ hours of on-demand education recorded in Boston during Heart Rhythm 2024. The Full Program includes a variety of SCA-related sessions, such as:
- Vision of the Future: Tackling the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Challenge in YOUR Community
- The Remaining Gaps in Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention
- Aborted Sudden Cardiac Arrest as a First-Time Presentation of CPVT Should Get an ICD Implanted
- How I Manage Unexplained Sudden Cardiac Arrest: An Expert Panel Discussion
- Cardiac Arrest on the Athletic Field and Sports Electrophysiology: A Team Approach
Comparing adolescent- and adult-onset unexplained cardiac arrest: Results from the Dutch Idiopathic VF Registry
Heart Rhythm, October 2024
Sudden cardiac death due to ventricular arrhythmia in diabetes mellitus: A bench to bedside review
Heart Rhythm, October 2024
Alcohol is neither a risk factor nor a protective factor for sudden cardiac death and/or fatal ventricular arrhythmia: A population-based study with genetic traits and alcohol consumption in the UK Biobank
Heart Rhythm, October 2024
Proarrhythmic drugs, drug levels, and polypharmacy in victims of sudden arrhythmic death syndrome: An autopsy-based study from Denmark
Heart Rhythm, October 2024
Diversity of ICD-10 coding for sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is likely to create a spurious rise in cases under new ICD-11 nomenclature
Heart Rhythm, October 2024
Prediction of sudden cardiac death using artificial intelligence: Current status and future directions
Heart Rhythm, September 06, 2024
The Alliance Against Sudden Death, a 17-year journey for an original initiative of the Inter-American Society of Cardiology
Heart Rhythm O2, August 2024
An ECG that changed paradigms about sudden death
Heart Rhythm, August 2024
Sudden cardiac arrest occurring in temporal proximity to consumption of energy drinks
Heart Rhythm, July 2024
Energy drinks and sudden death: If it swims like a duck…
Heart Rhythm, July 2024
A novel scoring system and correlative analysis of the strength and effectiveness of nationwide high school cardiopulmonary resuscitation mandates: Insights from a high school CPR study
Heart Rhythm, July 19, 2024
Sex differences in achieving guideline-recommended heart rate control among a large sample of patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest
Heart Rhythm O2, May 2024
Rising burden of cardiac arrest– and heart failure–related mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2020
Heart Rhythm O2, April 2024
HRS Takes Action
Help Save Lives: Heart Rhythm Society Provides AED and CPR Training to Boston Area Hotel and Convention Center Staff
During Heart Rhythm 2024, the Heart Rhythm Society recently trained Boston area hotel and convention center staff in AEDs and CPR. The training emphasized the importance of these devices for SCA survival.
HRS Joins the Smart Heart Sports Coalition
On March 27, 2023, the National Football League, along with other major sports organizations and leading patient and health advocacy groups, announced the formation of The Smart Heart Sports Coalition, to advocate for all 50 states to adopt evidence-based policies that will help prevent fatal outcomes from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) among high school students.