Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic With Prehospital Characteristics and Outcomes of Pediatric Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Japan, 2005-2020

Ling Zha; Sanae Hosomi; Kosuke Kiyohara; Tomotaka Sobue; Tetsuhisa Kitamura

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.35401

Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic With Prehospital Characteristics and Outcomes of Pediatric Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Japan, 2005-2020

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Oct 3;5(10):e2235401. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.35401.

Authors

Ling Zha¹, Sanae Hosomi², Kosuke Kiyohara³, Tomotaka Sobue¹, Tetsuhisa Kitamura¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Environmental Medicine and Population Sciences, Department of Social Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
² Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
³ Department of Food Science, Faculty of Home Economics, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study investigates the association of the COVID-19 pandemic with prehospital characteristics and outcomes of pediatric patients with out-of-hospital-cardiac arrest in Japan.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Child
Emergency Medical Services*
Humans
Japan / epidemiology
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest* / epidemiology
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest* / therapy
Pandemics