• Jean-Philippe Empana, Marieke T Blom, Bernd W Bӧttiger, Nikolaos Dagres, Jacqueline M Dekker, Gunnar Gislason, Xavier Jouven, Thomas Meitinger, Giuseppe Ristagno, Peter J Schwartz, Martin Jonsson, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Anatolij Truhlar, Hanno L Tan, and ESCAPE-NET Investigators.
• Université Paris Descartes, INSERM UMRS-970, Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre, Paris, France.
• Resuscitation. 2018 Mar 1; 124: 7-13.

AimsThe ESCAPE-NET project ("European Sudden Cardiac Arrest network- towards Prevention, Education and New Effective Treatments") aims to study: (1) risk factors and mechanisms for the occurrence of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in the population, and (2) risk factors and treatment strategies for survival after SCA on a European scale.MethodsThis is an Horizon2020 funded program of the European Union, performed by a European public-private consortium of 16 partners across 10 EU countries. There are 11 deep-phenotyped SCA cohorts for the study of risk factors and treatment strategies for survival after SCA, and 5 deep-phenotyped observational prospective population cohorts for the study of risk factors for occurrence of SCA. Personalized risk scores for predicting SCA onset and for predicting survival after SCA will be derived and validated.ResultsThe 11 clinical studies with SCA cases comprise 85,790 SCA cases; the 5 observational prospective population cohorts include 53,060 subjects. A total of 15,000 SCA samples will be genotyped for common and rare variants at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (Germany) using the Illumina Global Screening Array which contains > 770,000 SNPs, and after imputation, a database of an estimated > 9 million variants will be available for genome wide association studies. Standardization of risk factors definition and outcomes is ongoing. An Executive Committee has been created along with a Collaboration Policy document.ConclusionESCAPE-NET will complement ongoing efforts on SCA outside Europe and within Europe including the EuReCa project.Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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