Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest during the Covid-19 Outbreak in Italy

From February 21 through April 1, 2019, a total of 229 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were reported in four provinces of Lombardy, Italy. During the same period in 2020 (the first 40 days of the Covid-19 epidemic), 362 cases were reported — a 58% increase. Of the additional 133 cases in 202...

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Published inNew England Journal of Medicine Vol. 383; no. 5; pp. 496 - 498
Main Authors Baldi, Enrico, Sechi, Giuseppe M, Mare, Claudio, Canevari, Fabrizio, Brancaglione, Antonella, Primi, Roberto, Klersy, Catherine, Palo, Alessandra, Contri, Enrico, Ronchi, Vincenza, Beretta, Giorgio, Reali, Francesca, Parogni, Pierpaolo, Facchin, Fabio, Bua, Davide, Rizzi, Ugo, Bussi, Daniele, Ruggeri, Simone, Oltrona Visconti, Luigi, Savastano, Simone
Format Journal Article Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 30.07.2020
Subjects
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Ambulance services
Betacoronavirus
Cardiac arrest
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronaviruses
Correspondence
COVID-19
Emergency services
Female
Heart
Heart attacks
Humans
Incidence
Italy - epidemiology
Male
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - epidemiology
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Italy
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Summary:From February 21 through April 1, 2019, a total of 229 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were reported in four provinces of Lombardy, Italy. During the same period in 2020 (the first 40 days of the Covid-19 epidemic), 362 cases were reported — a 58% increase. Of the additional 133 cases in 2020, a total of 103 involved suspected or diagnosed Covid-19.
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A list of the Lombardia CARe researchers is provided in the Supplementary Appendix, available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org.
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMc2010418