Delays in Emergency Care and Mortality during Major U.S. Marathons

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 376; no. 15; pp. 1441 - 1450
• Main Authors: Jena, Anupam B, Mann, N. Clay, Wedlund, Leia N, Olenski, Andrew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 13.04.2017
• Subjects: Aged; Ambulance services; Ambulances; Beneficiaries; Data processing; Emergency medical care; Emergency Medical Services; Female; Heart; Heart Arrest - mortality; Heart Arrest - therapy; Heart attacks; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Hospitals; Humans; Infrastructure; Male; Marathons; Medicare; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial Infarction - mortality; Myocardial Infarction - therapy; Registries; Running; Time-to-Treatment; Transportation of Patients; United States - epidemiology; United States > US

Road closures could delay emergency care during marathons. In this analysis, patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or cardiac arrest on marathon days had longer ambulance transport times and higher 30-day mortality than patients hospitalized on nonmarathon days. Preparation for large...