TY - JOUR T1 - What can we do to reduce the number of tragic cardiac events in sport? JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 897 LP - 898 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2012-091252 VL - 46 IS - 13 AU - Richard Weiler AU - Mark A Goldstein AU - Ian Beasley AU - Jonathan Drezner AU - Jiri Dvorak Y1 - 2012/10/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/13/897.abstract N2 - The FIFA 2006 Big Count suggested more than 265 million football players are registered worldwide,1 making football one of the most popular and highly participated sports in the world. It is therefore not surprising that tragic cardiac events afflicting footballers are broadcast to the world through intense and emotive media coverage. Media reporting influences perceptions, however, even when these media reports are meticulously searched in high-profile athletes, only about half of sudden cardiac death (SCD) cases are revealed.2 Experts in sports cardiology, sport and exercise medicine and the wider medical community learn from these awful events, which have led to improvements in pitch side and sporting acute medical care, the development of numerous practical and educational ‘sport-specific prehospital emergency care guidelines’ and the development of cardiac screening programmes to try and identify a range of structural and electrical cardiac conditions that can lead to SCD in sport.3 … ER -