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. 2020 Aug:153:56-57.
doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.06.005. Epub 2020 Jun 12.

The need to adapt the rescue chain for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from the Paris Fire Brigade Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support teams

Daniel Jost  1 , Clément Derkenne  2 , Romain Kedzierewicz  2 , Frédérique Briche  2 , Benoit Frattini  2 , Kilian Bertho  2 , Bertrand Prunet  3 , Daniel Jost, Frédéric Lemoine, Vincent Lanoë, Benoit Frattini, Clément Derkenne, Romain Kedzierewicz, Frédérique Briche, Romain Jouffroy, Sabine Lemoine, Xavier Lesaffre, Ludovic Delhaye, Laurent Prieux, Vivien Hong Tuan Ha, Julie Trichereau, Eric Gauyat, Olivier Stibbe, Stéphane Travers, Pascal Diegelmann, René Bihannic, Bertrand Prunet
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The need to adapt the rescue chain for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from the Paris Fire Brigade Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support teams

Daniel Jost et al. Resuscitation. 2020 Aug.
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Number of weekly OHCAs treated by the BLS teams since January 1, 2020. (These data have been previously published2). The solid black line represents the number of OHCAs per week since January 1, 2020; The grey dotted line reports the median number of OHCAs per week during the 2016–2019 period and the dark and light grey areas their corresponding interquartile and minimum-to-maximum ranges, respectively. The numbers 1–5, along the solid black line, refer to the following events: 1. Brigade Headquarters instructions to the rescue workers to wear the Full Personal Protective Equipment. 2. Provisory suspension of the use of the mobile-responder app (Paris Lockdown). 3. Limitation to one BLS crew per-patient instead of the two provided for in the pre-pandemic period. 4. ILCOR Interim Guidance for Basic and Advanced Life Support in Patients with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 (Originally published April 9, 2020). 5. Breaking out of confinement.
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