UCSF POST SCD Study

Our recently published article in the Annals of Internal Medicine. One in six deaths attributed to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by EMS in San Francisco between 2011 to 2017 were actually due to occult overdose. Most deaths involved multiple drugs, and about half of intoxicants were prescribed. The true rate of overdose deaths and the severity of the opioid epidemic may be greatly underestimated. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-0977

Our editorial in response to Dr. Gupta's important work published today in JAMA Internal Medicine on overall declining clinical autopsy rates and the association of race with the its use. Understanding determinants to preserve equal access to the invaluable clinical autopsy is critical. https://jamanetwork.com//jamainte/article-abstract/2767701

We would like to welcome Santo Ricceri, Dr. Satvik Ramakrishna, and Alan Iwahashi to the SF POST-SCD Team. Excited to have you on board!

We would like to welcome Santo Ricceri, Dr. Satvik Ramakrishna, and Alan Iwahashi to the SF POST-SCD Team. Excited to have you on board!

Check out our latest publication about our ongoing work with sudden neurologic death in the current issue of Neurology:

With Rana off to medical school, we are pleased to welcome Joanne Probert to the team as a new clinical research coordinator - Welcome Joanne!

We're pleased to welcome Annie Bedigian to our growing team! Annie is a San Francisco native interested in molecular biology.

April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. As a part of the Sudden Death in the Young (SDY) registry with the CDC, we are working with SF organizations to prevent child deaths within our community. Here are some tips to learn how to protect children: http://sfcapc.org/april CDC

Dr. Tseng and Dr. Moffatt were in Las Vegas this week to present at the NAME conference. We value our continued collaboration with medical examiners nationwide.

We had the opportunity to visit the CDC in Atlanta this past week for our Sudden Death in the Young grant! We had a great time meeting with other states and discussing what they're doing in order to prevent childhood deaths. We're excited to continue working with the CDC on this project!

We are so happy to announce that some of our ongoing work with cardiac rhythm devices has been published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association - Internal Medicine. Check out the links below for more information. https://www.ucsf.edu//current-monitoring-pacemakers-defibr