猝死是一个严重的临床问题。美国每年约有70万人死于冠心病,其中65％是猝死。我国对心脏性猝死尚缺乏流行病学的报告,但我们所遇到的猝死病例往往发生在院外被看作为健康人群中,或在慢性冠心病病情稳定或急性心肌梗塞恢复期突然死亡。这就容易使人们认为冠心病猝死是不可予料、不可避免的。但是近年来认为猝死不是冠心病的必然结局,而是心 Sudden death is a serious clinical problem. About 700,000 Americans die of coronary heart disease each year, of which 65% are sudden death. In our country, there is still no epidemiological report on sudden cardiac death. However, the cases of sudden death we encounter often occur outside the hospital as healthy people or suddenly after the stable coronary heart disease or acute myocardial infarction recovery. This makes it easy to make people believe that sudden death in coronary heart disease is unbelievable, inevitable. But in recent years, sudden death is not the inevitable outcome of coronary heart disease, but the heart