A study report - COVID-19 patients have a higher risk of dying after cardiac arrest!
Posted on: 05/Feb/2021 12:51:57 PM
A recent research/study undertaken has established that COVID-19 patients who suffer cardiac arrest have a higher probability of dying in comparison to those who are not infected with it.
In this regard, women especially have a nine times higher chance of dying due to the same reason!
As per the above research/study, published in the `European Heart Journal`, the study from Sweden included 1946 people who suffered a cardiac arrest out of hospital (OHCA) and 1080 who suffered one in hospital (IHCA) between 1st
January and 20th of July.
During the pandemic phase of the study, COVID-19 was involved in at least 10 per cent of all OHCAs and 16 per cent of IHCAs.
Coronavirus patients who had an OHCA had a 3.4-fold increased risk of dying within 30 days, while IHCA patients had a 2.3-fold increased risk of dying within 30 days. None of these patients had been discharged alive from the hospital by the time the study was written in October 2020. Many had died and the rest were still being treated in hospital.
The first author of the study, Dr Pedram Sultanian, a doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) said, "Our study clearly shows that cardiac arrest and COVID-19 is a very lethal combination. Patients with the coronavirus should be monitored intensively and measures are taken to prevent cardiac arrest, for instance with the use of continuous heart monitors for patients at high risk."
This is the first detailed report of characteristics and outcomes in COVID-19 patients who suffer cardiac arrest. The researchers analysed data from the Swedish Registry for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (SRCR), which is a nationwide registry that started to collect data on COVID-19 from 1 April 2020 onwards. The researchers included all cardiac arrests registered in the SRCR from 1 January to 20 July 2020 and divided them into a pre-pandemic group (before 16 March) and a pandemic group (16 March to 20 July).
