The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: an individual patient data meta-analysis
Aim Prior studies have reported increased out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) incidence and lower survival during the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated how the COVID-19 pandemic affected OHCA incidence, bystander CPR rate and patients’ outcomes, accounting for regional COVID-19 incidence and OHCA characteristics. Methods individual patient data meta-analysis of studies which provided a comparison of OHCA incidence…