Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests Spiked in 2021, Study Finds

“Cardiac arrests that happened outside of hospitals spiked in 2021, according to a new U.S. study.

Compared to the prepandemic years, or 2018 and 2019, there were 19 percent more people who suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the pandemic period, or 2020 and 2021, researchers said. That included a 10.8 percent increase in those who survived until responders arrived and a 27.2 percent increase in patients declared dead when responders reached the patients.

The numbers were the highest during 2021, after the COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out.”

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