In-hospital cardiac arrest during the COVID-19 pandemic: Where do we go now?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States; Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, United States; Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States; Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, United States. Electronic address: Oscar.mitchell@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

Editorial

Amina Ramadan et al. Resuscitation. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan:170:371-372.

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.12.007. Epub 2021 Dec 14.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, United States; Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, United States; Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, United States; Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, United States. Electronic address: Oscar.mitchell@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

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Impact of the three COVID-19 surges in 2020 on in-hospital cardiac arrest survival in the United States.
Gupta K, Girotra S, Nallamothu BK, Kennedy K, Starks MA, Chan PS; American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines®-Resuscitation Investigators (listed in Supplementary Appendix). Gupta K, et al. Resuscitation. 2022 Jan;170:134-140. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.11.025. Epub 2021 Nov 24. Resuscitation. 2022. PMID: 34838661 Free PMC article.

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