By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
In my last four articles in this series on Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), I have told you almost everything about why such deaths occur and what you can do to prevent them and also how you should react to save the lives of the victims, if you do happen to encounter one such situation. I also told you about why it is so difficult to rescue people who run into this problem and the distressingly high mortality of more than ninety percent that it carries, if not promptly treated within the very short time it takes to kill the person.
