The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on in-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is an emerging concern regarding the indirect effect the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the care provided to patients. New resuscitation guidance including the donning of Personal Protective Equipment before commencing resuscitation efforts, the avoidance of bag-mask ventilation, limiting the number of responders and stopping resuscitation efforts earlier could have led to worse outcomes following in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) when compared to the non-pandemic period. The primary objective was to understand the impact of the pandemic on patient outcomes following IHCA by comparing the pandemic and non-pandemic periods.

Methods

Our systematic search was conducted on the 13th of September 2022 in three databases: Medline, Embase and Central. Randomised or no

SUBMITTER: Fekete-Gyor A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11422769 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature