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Editorial
. 2023 Jun:187:109803.
doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109803. Epub 2023 Apr 22.

An unbroken ring of the chain of survival

Tatsuya Norii  1 , Yutaka Igarashi  2
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Editorial

An unbroken ring of the chain of survival

Tatsuya Norii et al. Resuscitation. 2023 Jun.

Abstract

This is a commentary on the study conducted by Kennedy et al. from Victoria, Australia, that analyzed the cohort of all adult EMS-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients in the region and compared patients treated during the COVID-19 period to a historical comparator period. The commentary summarizes the study findings and discusses the importance of the study in the context of the chain of survival and changes in airway management for OHCA patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Airway management; COVID-19; Cardiac arrest; Supraglottic airway devices.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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