Impact of COVID-19 on barriers to dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation in adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Singapore.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Fewer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients received bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore. We investigated the impact of COVID-19 on barriers to dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DA-CPR).

Methods

We reviewed audio recordings of all calls to our national ambulance service call centre during the pandemic (January-June 2020) and pre-pandemic (January-June 2019) periods. Our primary outcome was the presence of barriers to DA-CPR. Multivariable logistic regression was used to assess the effect of COVID-19 on the likelihood of barriers to and performance of DA-CPR, adjusting for patient and event characteristics.

Results

There were 1241 and 1118 OHCA who were eligible for DA-CPR during the pand

SUBMITTER: Lim SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9596179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature