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Sudden cardiac death accounts for >50 % of all coronary artery disease deaths and 15–20 % of all deaths (Gillum 1990; Myerburg et al. 2004). Thus cardiac arrest prevention represents a major opportunity to further reduce mortality (Deo and Albert 2012).

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  1. University of Ottawa The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    M. Gabriel Khan MD, FRCPC, FRCP (London), FACC

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Khan, M.G. (2015). Cardiac Arrest. In: Cardiac Drug Therapy. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-962-4_15

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