In a Heartbeat: Outpatient Screening to Determine Cardiovascular Risk

The world watched in shock as Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed on the field during a Monday night football game against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2, 2023. If parents and pediatricians weren’t already nervous about pre-sport physicals and sudden cardiac death, that scene certainly reinforced everyone’s worst fears. But could screening of any kind have prevented that incident? And what is really most important about cardiovascular risk screening in the primary care office, for athletes or for any of our young patients? Joining us in this week's episode is cardiovascular Kid Expert, Dr. Chris Carter, pediatric cardiologist and co-medical director of the electrophysiology program at the Children’s Heart Clinic at Children’s Minnesota.
View the episode transcript here:
https://www.childrensmn.org/for-health-professionals/talking-pediatrics-podcast/talking-pediatrics-heartbeat-outpatient-screening-determine-cardiovascular-risk-2-24-23/