Clinical, Genetic and Psychosocial Aspects of Sudden Cardiac Death

心源性猝死（SCD）在年轻人是一个悲剧性并发症的一些遗传性心脏疾病。家庭必须处理深刻的悲痛，并对自己和其他亲属的遗传风险采取行动。临床治疗可包括植入式心律转复除颤器（ICD），这是唯一被证明可以预防SCD的治疗方法。本提案旨在研究SCD后家庭管理的临床、遗传和社会心理方面，包括挽救生命的ICD治疗的心理结果。

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the young is a tragic complication of a number of genetic heart diseases. Families must deal with profound grief and act on the genetic risk to themselves and other relatives. Clinical management can include the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and is the only therapy proven to prevent SCD. This proposal seeks to investigate the clinical, genetic and psychosocial aspects of managing families who present following a SCD, including psychological outcomes of life-saving ICD therapy.