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Editorial
. 2021 Jan;7(1):12-15.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacep.2020.09.006. Epub 2020 Sep 16.

Cardiac Arrests During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Perfect Storm

Raul D Mitrani  1 , Jeffrey J Goldberger  2
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Editorial

Cardiac Arrests During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Perfect Storm

Raul D Mitrani et al. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2021 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; cardiac arrest; prevention; resuscitation; sudden cardiac death.

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Conflict of interest statement

Author Disclosures Dr. Goldberger is the Director of the Path to Improved Risk Stratification, NFP, a not-for-profit think tank on risk stratification for sudden cardiac death which has received unrestricted educational grants from Abbott, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic. Dr. Mitrani has reported that he has no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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Adding Prevention to the Chain of Survival From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest On a case by case basis, prevention may be even more effective to improve survival. CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation; EMS = emergency medical services.
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