随着临床医学的发展,多数疾病能在病人生前作出正确诊断,但对猝死的预测远未能解决。猝死发生突然,临床救治往往措手不及,若能早期发现先兆症状,及早作出诊断,予以有效治疗,可降低发生率。本文调查了我院从1982年至1991年老年病人猝死的52例,其中11例进行了尸检,就其死因、诱因、高危因素和防治进行分析讨论。 With the development of clinical medicine, most diseases can make the correct diagnosis before the patient’s life, but the prediction of sudden death far can not be solved. Sudden death occurs suddenly, clinical treatment is often caught by surprise, if early detection of aura symptoms, early diagnosis, to be effective treatment, can reduce the incidence. This article investigated 52 cases of sudden death in elderly patients from 1982 to 1991 in our hospital. Eleven of them were autopsy and analyzed their causes of death, causes, risk factors and prevention and treatment.