Sudden Death Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment

This book provides up-to-date guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of sudden death, including sudden cardiac and non-cardiac death. Sudden death (SD) has become a major challenge confronting not only cardiologists, but also specialists in respiratory medicine, endocrine medicine, infectious diseases, etc. Chronic diseases are also among the causes of SD.

This book summarizes the occurrence of SD, especially in specific groups (such as women, young and middle-aged groups), its causes, predisposing factors, lifestyle, morbidity, point of care testing, and advanced treatment methods including extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and hypothermia treatment. In order to improve the early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of SD in clinical practice, the book also provides extensive data on its pathophysiological mechanism, epidemiology and etiology, together with detailed analyses.      

1 Introduction of Sudden Death.- Part I Sudden cardiac death - Pathophysiological mechanism.- 2 Etiology of Sudden Death.- 3 Etiology Mechanism of Sudden Death Derived from Brain.- 4 Progress in Pathophysiological mechanism of global cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury.- 5    Neuro-prognostication after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.- 6 Progress in cardiorespiratory ischemia-reperfusion injury.- 7 Progress in Reperfusion Injury of Other Important Organs in Cardiovascular Events.- Part 2 Diagnosis of sudden cardiac death.- 8 Improvement in diagnosis of sudden cardiac death.- 9 Chronic fatigue stress and sudden death.- 10 The Children and infant Sudden Death.- Part 3 Treatment and progress of sudden cardiac death.- 11 Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death.- 12 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.- 13 Defibrillation in sudden cardiac death.- 14 Airway management of sudden cardiac death.- 15 Respiratory support strategy for sudden cardiac death.- 16 The Use of Extracorporeal Lift Support (ECLS) in Sudden Cardiac Death.- 17 Hypothermia therapy in sudden death.- 18 Progress in clinical application of subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator in patients with sudden cardiac death.- Part 4 Sudden non-cardiac death.- 19 Progress in diagnosis and treatment of sudden death of respiratory diseases.- 20 Sudden Unexpected Death in Endocrine Diseases.- 21 Infectious Diseases.- 22 Sudden Non-cardiac Deaths Caused by Poisoning.- 23 Digestive system disease and sudden death.- Part 5 Chinese medicine to prevent sudden death.- 24 Prevention and Control of Sudden Death in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Editor Haiyan Zhu is a chief physician and a professor at the Emergency Department, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.