Abstract: Objectives: To analyze the characteristics of exercise－related sudden death and the current situation of on-site emergency among university students. Methods: By means of literature review and investigation of living examples to track data and clues and consult professional documents, the authors have searched for keywords such as “university students”, “exercise-related sudden death” and “on-site emergency”, and collected cases from 2007 to 2016. Results: A total of 110 cases were included in the article. The results found that the incidence of male college students was 84.55%, which was significantly higher than female college students. The first-grade students have the highest incidence reaching 53.33%. Compared with summer and winter, autumn and spring are the seasons in which college students suffer more exercise-related sudden deaths. The sport project were mainly distributed in running, basketball, football, military training, and marathon, the total incidence reached 86.36%. Sports games and sports test exhibited highest incidence. As to on-site emergency of exercise－related sudden deaths among college students, 120 calls were made accounted for 94.23%. The percentage of professional and non-professionals who participated in on-site emergency was 59.32% and 40.68% respectively. The highest use rate of emergency methods was Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) accounted for 74.36%. Conclusion: There are gender, season, sport project and other characteristics of exercise-related sudden death among university students in China. There are insufficient first-aid participation, inadequate master of first-aid knowledge and techniques and other issues.

Key words: University students, Exercise-related sudden death, Characteristic, First-aid, Investigation