Impact of different waves of COVID-19 on emergency medical services and out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest in Madrid, Spain
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2022
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World Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Abstract
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is one of the three
leading causes of death in industrialized countries.[1,2] Some
studies have described the impact of the first COVID-19
pandemic wave in terms of the number of cases and
OHCA survival rates in various regions,[3-5] but few have
addressed the relationship between the successive phases
and how they affected OHCA.[6,7] The 14-d cumulative
incidence peaked at more than 990 cases, with these rates
remaining above 200 for an eight-month period between
15 March 2020 and 15 March 2021 in Madrid, Spain.
The objectives of the current study were twofold. First,
we sought to describe how the different waves in the first
pandemic year aff ected the healthcare activity of the Spanish
emergency medical services (EMS). Second, we compared
effects of the pandemic year on OHCA care to those of
the preceding non-pandemic year in terms of initiating
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival in a community
with a high incidence of COVID-19.