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Christian, Michael D. and Couper, Keith (2020) COVID-19 and the global OHCA crisis : an urgent need for system level solutions. Resuscitation, 157 . pp. 274-276. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.11.004
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Abstract
In this edition of Resuscitation, two systematic reviews 1 , 2 and a national Spanish cohort study 3 highlight the alarming impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the management and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The rapidly increasing literature in this area is highlighted by the difference in the number of identified studies between the two systematic reviews, despite only a small difference in search dates. Compared with historical data, these papers consistently show that during the COVID-19 period there were more cardiac arrests in the home, ambulance response time increased, and a marked decrease in patient survival. In contrast to data included in the two systematic reviews, OHCA incidence in Spain actually decreased although this is likely explained by differences in system response. The net result is a significant excess OHCA mortality during the COVID-19 period.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cardiac arrest, Heart -- Diseases -- Patients, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Complications, Cardiac intensive care, Critical care medicine, Emergency medicine | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Resuscitation | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Ireland Ltd | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0300-9572 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 157 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 274-276 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.11.004 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Description: | free COVID-19 article |
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