It arrives unannounced, unexpectedly and on most occasions with a heart-throwing origin that leaves patients on the ground in a few seconds and without response capacity. These are some of the characteristics of sudden death, which has always been one of the greatest challenges for emergency medicine and that we must increasingly take into account because cases do not stop growing. And especially in Spain.
A new trend.
A large study recently published in The Lancent magazine has put figures to this silent reality, pointing out that the mortality records of the last decade have increased by 30% in Europe, and the trend in Spain exceeds the European average.
How you've seen it. To understand the magnitude of this finding, we must look at the methodology followed by the research team, which has taken WHO data from 26 European countries between 2010 and 2020 as a source. In this period more than 53 million deaths were recorded for many different causes, and of these 2,583.559 deaths were classified as sudden deaths.
It is not a smaller figure, since this means that almost 5% of the total deaths in that decade enter this category. And if we look back, we observe an average annual increase of 2.9% in Europe, although if we focus on Spain, this increase is 3.3%.
