Impact of COVID-19 on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A registry-based cohort-study from the German Resuscitation Registry

The global COVID-19 pandemic effects people and the health system. Some international studies reported an increasing number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Comparable studies regarding the impact of COVID-19 on incidence and outcome of OHCA are not yet available for Germany. This epidemiol...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2022-09, Vol.17 (9), p.e0274314-e0274314
Hauptverfasser:	Ristau, Patrick, Wnent, Jan, Gräsner, Jan-Thorsten, Fischer, Matthias, Bohn, Andreas, Bein, Berthold, Brenner, Sigrid, Seewald, Stephan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Annual reports Cardiac arrest Care and treatment Cohort analysis Coronaviruses COVID-19 Epidemiology Heart International studies Medicine and Health Sciences Pandemics Patient outcomes Patients Resuscitation Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Survival
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Zusammenfassung:	The global COVID-19 pandemic effects people and the health system. Some international studies reported an increasing number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Comparable studies regarding the impact of COVID-19 on incidence and outcome of OHCA are not yet available for Germany. This epidemiological study from the German Resuscitation Registry (GRR) compared a non-pandemic period (01.03.2018-28.02.2019) and a pandemic period (01.03.2020-28.02.2021) regarding the pandemic-related impact on OHCA care. A total of 18,799 cases were included. The incidence of OHCA (non-pandemic 117.9 vs. pandemic period 128.0/100,000 inhabitants) and of OHCA with resuscitation attempted increased (66.0 vs. 69.1/100,000). OHCA occurred predominantly and more often at home (62.8% vs. 66.5%, p
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0274314