Support Cardiac Risk in the Young’s screening programme

Support Cardiac Risk in the Young’s screening programme

Do I need to bring anything with me for the test?

There is no need to bring anything with you, apart from yourself. This screening programme involves filling out a health questionnaire so it’s important to bring details about your General Practitioner, any relevant medical conditions that you may have. Any medications that you may be taking, you need to be aware of what they are […]

What are the chances of having something wrong?

There are several things that can cause cardiac problems in young people. These can range from very serious conditions such as long QT syndrome or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or minor conditions such as mitral valve prolapse. By that I mean a floppy mitral valve or a small atrial septal defect, by that I mean a very […]

Do these tests identify all people at risk?

The current screening programme, which involves an ECG and a health questionnaire, will not identify all conditions that cause sudden cardiac death. There are conditions such as anomalous coronary arteries and premature coronary artery disease that will be missed by our screening programme. Having said that, conditions like the cardiomyopathies and the ion channel disorders […]

Who will be reading my test?

At the CRY screening programme, all ECGs are read by a cardiac research fellow. ECGs deemed remotely abnormal are read by me. So, everybody with a remotely abnormal ECG has the ECG read by a junior cardiologist and a very senior cardiologist and based upon this, we make decisions regarding further investigations.

What test will I have and how long will it take? What will they be looking for?

Screening for cardiac diseases can be a complex situation but we are trying to adopt a cost effective screening programme and this screening programme comprises of a health questionnaire which enquires specifically about the cardinal symptoms of cardiac diseases such as chest pain, breathlessness, dizziness, palpitations or black outs and also importantly enquires about family […]

Why get tested? I am told there is nothing you can do for me if I am identified.

The antagonist could argue that screening for cardiovascular disease is a waste of time because once a disorder is identified, nothing can be done to prevent sudden death. I need to wipe these types of statements out, completely abolish them because there’s a lot that can be done otherwise there’d be no point screening. We […]

Does playing sport cause sudden cardiac death?

There is a relationship between sudden cardiac death and sport. However it is important to emphasise that sport is good for the heart. Sport reduces the risk of high blood pressure, it improves cholesterol levels and generally, it reduces the risk of someone dying from a cardiac problem. Indeed people who play sport on a […]

How important is expertise?

Expertise is extremely important, in fact expertise is the crux of our screening programme – without expertise, one opens themselves up to litigation. The conditions that we’re dealing with are rare, one considers that the prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is one in 500, the prevalence of ARVC is one in 1000, the prevalence of Brugada […]

What is SADS?

SADS stands for Sudden Arrhythmic Death and this is part of sudden cardiac death. However, SADS is defined as a sudden death whereby subsequent post mortem analysis and a toxicology screen fails to identify any obvious cause. In our experience, almost all of these conditions are due to an electrical fault that cannot be picked […]

What is sudden cardiac death?

Sudden cardiac death can be simply defined as a sudden death from a cardiac problem within 12 hours of witnessed normal health.

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