Commotio cordis is when you get hit in the heart during a specific beat of the heart, how can you have predisposing conditions to this? Besides extreme things
Here is the results of an experiment in the 1900s where 1200 swine were hit with balls to induce this. 30% of them experienced this phenomenon. 3% never experienced this and 7 did with a greater than 80% chance. And these are swine weighing 44lbs. If they weighed more than 88lbs there was a significant dropoff in occurrence.
Commotio cordis is when you get hit in the heart during a specific beat of the heart, how can you have predisposing conditions to this? Besides extreme things
Here is the results of an experiment in the 1900s where 1200 swine were hit with balls to induce this. 30% of them experienced this phenomenon. 3% never experienced this and 7 did with a greater than 80% chance. And these are swine weighing 44lbs. If they weighed more than 88lbs there was a significant dropoff in occurrence.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circep.111.962712#
Read the section under Genetic Susceptibility and Variables Critical to the Induction of Ventricular Fibrillation.
I would assume since then we've been able to determine what specifically predisposes people to this and is what is being mentioned.
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