Screening sporty youngsters for SADS conditions?

Did anyone hear BBC Radio 5 Live’s broadcast on Sudden Cardiac Death in sports on Tuesday 19th May? It’s still available on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xjcmh for another 20 days! It was a good listen. How many more professional football and other players must die (not to mention the much bigger numbers of the non-famous) before sports grounds and other public places have easily accessible AEDs and enough of the public CPR-trained, that someone gets on and starts CPR? And what about screening sporty folk? To screen or not to screen? that is the question. This is being debated in a conference for healthcare professionals and sports coaches/teachers in a conference on SADS on Friday October 2nd at the King Power Leicester City stadium – right in the middle of UK rugby world cup fever! Further information is available on www.jhmt.org.uk There’s was also a great publication published in the Emergency Medicine Journal November 2014 Baltsezak S. Emerg Med J 2013;0:1–3. doi:10.1136/emermed-2013-202647 which lists YouTube clips of players collapsing on the field - useful for teaching purposes. You only need to watch 2 or 3 of them to be motivated to go out there and join the campaign for teaching CPR in schools and having AEDs in public places.  
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