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ReviewCirculation2016

Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young.

Michael Ackerman, Dianne L Atkins, John K Triedman

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Review in Circulation, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
70citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
16.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 163 citations in OpenAlex.

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10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael AckermanFrom Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics; Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Pediatric Cardiology; Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.A.);Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, City (D.L.A.); andDepartment of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, MA (J.K.T.).
Dianne L AtkinsFrom Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics; Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Pediatric Cardiology; Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.A.);Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, City (D.L.A.); andDepartment of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, MA (J.K.T.).
John K TriedmanFrom Departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics; Divisions of Cardiovascular Diseases and Pediatric Cardiology; Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (M.A.);Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, City (D.L.A.); andDepartment of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, MA (J.K.T.). john.triedman@cardio.chboston.org.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona · USIo Therapeutics (United States) · US

Funding

Randomized Trial of Nonflouroscopic Technologies in Pediatric SVT AblationU10HL109816 · NHLBI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI NEWBURGER, JANE W., TRIEDMAN, JOHN K · 2011 to 2015
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS 1U10HL109816NHLBI NIH HHS U10 HL109816
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the occurrence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in a young person is a rare event, it is traumatic and often widely publicized. In recent years, SCD in this population has been increasingly seen as a public health and safety issue. This review presents current knowledge relevant to the epidemiology of SCD and to strategies for prevention, resuscitation, and identification of those at greatest risk. Areas of active research and controversy include the development of best practices in screening, risk stratification approaches and postmortem evaluation, and identification of modifiable barriers to providing better outcomes after resuscitation of young SCD patients. Institution of a national registry of SCD in the young will provide data that will help to answer these questions.

Indexed as

AdolescentAge FactorsChildChild, PreschoolDeath, Sudden, CardiacDisease ManagementHeart Defects, CongenitalHumansInfantRegistriesSecondary Preventioncongenital heart diseasedeath, sudden, cardiacheart arrestpediatricsresuscitation

Identifiers

PMID26951821
PMCPMC5033115
OpenAlexW2295648919

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