Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, USA; Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan.
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Resuscitation. 2023 Jun;187:109803. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109803. Epub 2023 Apr 22.
This is a commentary on the study conducted by Kennedy et al. from Victoria, Australia, that analyzed the cohort of all adult EMS-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients in the region and compared patients treated during the COVID-19 period to a historical comparator period. The commentary summarizes the study findings and discusses the importance of the study in the context of the chain of survival and changes in airway management for OHCA patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
这是对澳大利亚维多利亚州肯尼迪等人进行的研究的评论,该研究分析了该地区所有成年 EMS 目击的院外心脏骤停 (OHCA) 患者队列,并将 COVID-19 期间治疗的患者与历史对照期进行了比较。评论总结了研究结果,并讨论了该研究在生存链以及 COVID-19 大流行期间 OHCA 患者气道管理变化方面的重要性。