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Actividad y asistencia a la parada cardiorrespiratoria en un servicio extrahospitalario de emergencias durante la pandemia COVID-19 #MMPMID33750050
Navalpotro-Pascual JM; Fernandez Perez C; Peinado Vallejo FA; Carrillo Moya A; Munecas Cuesta Y; Munoz Isabel B; Gonzalez Leon MJ; Les Gonzalez JI
Emergencias 2021[Abr]; 33 (2): 100-106 PMID33750050show ga
OBJECTIVES: To describe the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients with out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest. To compare the cardiopulmonary arrest caseload during the pandemic to the caseloads in other periods. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Observational, prospective study based on the registry of out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest emergencies the SUMMA112 ambulance service responded to between March 1 and April 30, 2020, in the Spanish autonomous community of Madrid. The registry is a Utstein-style database. The period of March-April 2019 was the control period for direct comparison with the 2020 study period and with the January-February periods of 2019 and 2020. RESULTS: The responders undertook advanced CPR in 146 of the 313 cardiopulmonary arrest cases registered during March-April, 2020. Of the 87 patients with COVID-19-positive tests, 33 reached the hospital alive. Advanced CPR was not applied in 167 cases; the most frequent reason was prolonged circulatory collapse. Most cases (92.7%) occurred in the home. The emergency dispatchers received more calls in March and April of 2020, but they sent out a similar number of ambulances. CONCLUSION: Mortality was higher in cases of cardiopulmonary arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic. The percentage of cases with no application of advanced CPR rose; the main reason was the amount of time between collapse and first response. Even though the number of emergency calls increased significantly, the SUMMA112 service did not dispatch more ambulances.
Emergencias 2021 ; 33 (2): 100-106
