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About one in ten of us is going to die as a  result of a cardiac arrhythmia so it's probably   the commonest individual cause of death in our  community. The big challenge for us is trying   to detect in advance who are those people  that are most at risk, in about half of cases   the first that they or anyone else  is aware that they had that problem   is when they drop dead. Unfortunately if you  collapse and have a sudden cardiac arrest outside the   hospital, your chances of surviving are only one in  ten, so about 90% of those people will never survive.  That's why particularly in that younger group  it's really important that we try and detect   those people before they have that first event.  We know that in the majority of younger cases   there's an underlying specific genetic cause. In  our most recent discovery we've developed a new   fast electrical test that enables us to determine  whether a patient has one of those genetic   mutations that is