Diagnosaurus
Sudden death
DDx
Cardiac causes
- Ventricular fibrillation
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Complete heart block
- Sinus node arrest
- Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM)
- Congestive heart failure (CHF)
- Long QT syndrome
- Atrial myxoma
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Pre-excitation syndrome (eg, Wolff-Parkinson-White)
- Chagas’ disease
- Coronary anomalies
- Brugada syndrome
- Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Asthma
- Aortic dissection
- Ruptured aortic aneurysm
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Tension pneumothorax
- Anaphylaxis
- Electrolyte abnormalities
- Cocaine or other drug use
- Primary pulmonary hypertension
- Aortic stenosis
- Pulmonic stenosis
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Sudden Death." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114579/all/Sudden_death.
Zeiger RFR. Sudden death. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114579/all/Sudden_death. Accessed April 17, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Sudden death. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114579/all/Sudden_death
Zeiger RFR. Sudden Death [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 April 17]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114579/all/Sudden_death.
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