New research finds that between Feb. 21 and March 31, 2020, there was a 58% jump in the number of cardiac arrests that occurred before victims could get to the hospital, compared to the same time frame last year.
placed on the heart by COVID-19, a hesitancy by people to call 911, and even reluctance on the part of bystanders to perform CPR may be boosting rates of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, a new report finds.
In more than three-quarters of the cases, COVID-19 was diagnosed in the affected patients, said a team led by Dr. Enrico Baldi, of the University of Pavia. His team reported their findings online April 29 in theWhy the spike? People may be waiting longer to reach out to emergency medical services for help, the Italian team believes.
It also took an average 3 minutes longer for EMS crews to arrive on the scene of a cardiac arrest in 2020 versus 2019, and"the proportion of patients who received cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] from bystanders was 15.6 percentage points lower," Baldi's group reported. "As we start analyzing the data in the U.S., we are taking the lead from countries that were hit hard first," said Dr. Satjit Bhusri, a cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City."We suspect similar findings in the U.S. when it comes to the dramatic increase of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.""First, the disease itself.
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