Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic on the operational efficiency of emergency medical services and its association with out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest survival rates: A population‐based cohort study in Kobe, Japan

Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic on the operational efficiency of emergency medical services and its association with out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest survival rates: A population‐based cohort study in Kobe, Japan

Abstract Aim To identify whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic affects the operational efficiency of emergency medical services (EMS) and the survival rate of out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in prehospital settings. Methods We conducted a population‐based cohort study in Kob...

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Main Authors: Jun Sugiyama, Shigeaki Inoue, Masami Inada, Yusuke Miyazaki, Nobuto Nakanishi, Yoshihisa Fujinami, Masafumi Saito, Yuko Ono, Kazushige Toyama, Futoshi Toda, Tohru Shirotsuki, Soushi Shiotani, Joji Kotani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-01-01
Series:Acute Medicine & Surgery
Subjects:
emergency medical services
operational efficiency
out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest
prehospital
response time
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ams2.865

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https://doi.org/10.1002/ams2.865

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