TY - JOUR

T1 - 2020 APHRS/HRS expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest, and of their families

AU - Stiles, Martin K

AU - Wilde, Arthur A M

AU - Abrams, Dominic J

AU - Ackerman, Michael J

AU - Albert, Christine M

AU - Behr, Elijah R

AU - Chugh, Sumeet S

AU - Cornel, Martina C

AU - Gardner, Karen

AU - Ingles, Jodie

AU - James, Cynthia A

AU - Juang, Jyh-Ming Jimmy

AU - Kääb, Stefan

AU - Kaufman, Elizabeth S

AU - Krahn, Andrew D

AU - Lubitz, Steven A

AU - MacLeod, Heather

AU - Morillo, Carlos A

AU - Nademanee, Koonlawee

AU - Probst, Vincent

AU - Saarel, Elizabeth V

AU - Sacilotto, Luciana

AU - Semsarian, Christopher

AU - Sheppard, Mary N

AU - Shimizu, Wataru

AU - Skinner, Jonathan R

AU - Tfelt-Hansen, Jacob

AU - Wang, Dao Wu

N1 - © 2021 The Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society and the Heart Rhythm Society. Published by John Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd / Elsevier Inc. This article is published under the Creative Commons CC‐BY license.

PY - 2021/6

Y1 - 2021/6

N2 - This international multidisciplinary document intends to provide clinicians with evidence-based practical patient-centered recommendations for evaluating patients and decedents with (aborted) sudden cardiac arrest and their families. The document includes a framework for the investigation of the family allowing steps to be taken, should an inherited condition be found, to minimize further events in affected relatives. Integral to the process is counseling of the patients and families, not only because of the emotionally charged subject, but because finding (or not finding) the cause of the arrest may influence management of family members. The formation of multidisciplinary teams is essential to provide a complete service to the patients and their families, and the varied expertise of the writing committee was formulated to reflect this need. The document sections were divided up and drafted by the writing committee members according to their expertise. The recommendations represent the consensus opinion of the entire writing committee, graded by Class of Recommendation and Level of Evidence. The recommendations were opened for public comment and reviewed by the relevant scientific and clinical document committees of the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS); the document underwent external review and endorsement by the partner and collaborating societies. While the recommendations are for optimal care, it is recognized that not all resources will be available to all clinicians. Nevertheless, this document articulates the evaluation that the clinician should aspire to provide for patients with sudden cardiac arrest, decedents with sudden unexplained death, and their families.

AB - This international multidisciplinary document intends to provide clinicians with evidence-based practical patient-centered recommendations for evaluating patients and decedents with (aborted) sudden cardiac arrest and their families. The document includes a framework for the investigation of the family allowing steps to be taken, should an inherited condition be found, to minimize further events in affected relatives. Integral to the process is counseling of the patients and families, not only because of the emotionally charged subject, but because finding (or not finding) the cause of the arrest may influence management of family members. The formation of multidisciplinary teams is essential to provide a complete service to the patients and their families, and the varied expertise of the writing committee was formulated to reflect this need. The document sections were divided up and drafted by the writing committee members according to their expertise. The recommendations represent the consensus opinion of the entire writing committee, graded by Class of Recommendation and Level of Evidence. The recommendations were opened for public comment and reviewed by the relevant scientific and clinical document committees of the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS); the document underwent external review and endorsement by the partner and collaborating societies. While the recommendations are for optimal care, it is recognized that not all resources will be available to all clinicians. Nevertheless, this document articulates the evaluation that the clinician should aspire to provide for patients with sudden cardiac arrest, decedents with sudden unexplained death, and their families.

U2 - 10.1002/joa3.12449

DO - 10.1002/joa3.12449

M3 - Review

C2 - 34141003

VL - 37

SP - 481

EP - 534

JO - Journal of Arrhythmia

JF - Journal of Arrhythmia

SN - 1880-4276

IS - 3

ER -