[SCD-FORUM] 55S Cardiorespiratory arrest and sudden cardiac death. Dr. Ropero

[SCD Symposium]

Dear colleagues,
I am writing to this list because I would to have some concepts  
clarified to me regarding the subject of discussion.
I have looked through several articles, books and journals, and they  
are not clear in this sense. For instance: the Spanish guidelines for  
CPR mention that there is a very narrow and arbitrary limit between  
the concepts of cardiorespiratory arrest and sudden cardiac death,  
leaving one for statistic limits, and the cardiorespiratory arrest as  
a clinical approach of the problem.
My question for the experts:
Is there some way of defining both concepts, or do they overlap in  
such a way that they can be used without distinction in related  
studies and papers?
Other authors point out “reanimation from sudden cardiac death”.
Could it be reanimation from a cardiac arrest? Is it not death  
precisely that, “death”?

I hope you can clarify this dilemma for me, and thanking you in advance,

Dr. Oscar Ruiz Ropero
Intensivista
Hospital General Docente. Guantanamo. Cuba.


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Dr. Sergio Dubner
President of Scientific Committee

Dr. Edgardo Schapachnik
President of Steering Committee




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