Vaccination drive picks up slowlyCoronavirus 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.