Abstract:

Objective: To explore causes for frequent students' athletic sudden death and its preventive measures in recent years.
Methods: Literature review was adopted to analyze the reasons and preventive measures. Results: The causes for frequent students' athletic sudden death are in the following aspects: the improvement of the living conditions and medical conditions makes the students with potential disease problems increasing, who become a high-risk group of exercise-related sudden death; the lack of exercise and physical weakness make students' ability to withstand the sports load getting worse; ignoring the preparatory activities and organize activities make sports process lack integrity; the opportunities to participate in various large-scale events are increasing, excess load movement is easy to cause myocardial injury; irregular life style. Conclusion: The preventive measures are in the following aspects: strengthen publicity and education of sports health care knowledge, improve students' ability of self-monitoring and on-the-spot first aid; improve the students physical examination content, prohibit students at high risk of disease to participate in strenuous exercise and competition; pay attention to prevention and investigation of exercise-induced cardiac damage; strengthen the school sports education, improve the students ability to bear the load; pay attention to identification of the prodromal symptoms of exercise-related sudden death; promote a healthy lifestyle.

Key words: students, athletic sudden death, causes, prevention measures