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You know the new coronavirus of the ravages on your lungs, the heart, and even your brain, but the way the pandemic has touched the world around us also makes other conditions also more dangerous of municipalities. In fact, a new study shows that patients who sufferSudden cardiac arrest have been more likely to die from the coronavirus pandemic has begun. According to the research of the Institute of Smidt Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai published in the issue of August 2020JACC: Clinical electrophysiology,People who have had heart attacks outside a hospital environment in the middle coronavirus were less likely to survive than they were before the pandemic.

It is not itself coronavirus that is made of deadlier heart attacks, however. The authors of the study revealed that there were two distinct factors that contributed to the slight increase in cardiac arrest mortality outside hospitals: the increase in wait times for ambulances andreluctance from those present to perform the CPR.

The results of the study are based on Oregon data suddenly unexpected dead investigation. The researchers compared 278 incidents of hospital cardiac arrest which took place from March 1st to May 31st, 2020, at 231 which took place within these same dates in 2019. They found that before the coronavirus pandemic , the average waiting time for an ambulance following a heart attack was 6.6 minutes; In the middle of the pandemic, this average was 7.6 minutes.

In addition to this, in 2019, 61 percent of the people who have had a heart out of the hospital attack received the CPR of an observer; By 2020, this number fell to only 51 percent, probably because of the fear of contracting the potentially fatal virus.

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"When someone starts at cardiac and collapses, they must be resuscitated immediately," the principal investigator of the studyKyndaron kidney, PhD, MPH, said in a statement. "Every minute passing,The chances of survival decreases. "

The combination of the RCP reduction by the witness and the increase in wait times for ambulances was associated with a significant decline in likelihood patients will survive-14.7 percent of cardiac arrests outside the patient hospital. In the study were released from the hospital in 2019, but only 7.9 percent left the hospital alive in 2020, close to slash the risk of mortality by half.

While some elements that have led to the increase in the time it took for ambulances to reach patients, namely the equipment can put on unavoidable personal protection, Reinier said that changes to BYSTANDER intervention can save lives.

Reinier describes CPR as a BYSTANDer "of crucial importance" for the survival of patients with heart attack, noting that it should not include mouth-to-mouth, which could increase the risk of transmission of coronaviruses person to anybody. "For years, we recommended only thoracic cuts, so there is no need for face-to-face contact," said Reinier. And to learn more about the long-term effects of coronavirus, seeThe 98 symptoms of lasting durable covidants you need to know.