Methods This was a retrospective analysis of dispatcher order cards and medical rescue
cards from the following periods: March 15 to May 15, 2018 (period 1); March 15 to May 15 …

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treated by emergency medical service teams during COVID-19
pandemic: A retrospective cohort study Page 1 Address for correspondence: Lukasz Szarpak …

Objective. To describe the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on
the initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients with out-of-hospital …

Background: Some studies in countries affected by the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-
19) pandemic have shown that the missions of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) have …

Background Dispatching first responders (FR) to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in addition to
the emergency medical service has shown to increase survival. The promising development …

During the night of 20–21 February 2020, the first case of domestic SARS–CoV-2 (severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) was diagnosed in Northern Italy, in the Lombardy …

Background Over the course of the COVID-19 progress, reports from many locations around
the world indicated major increases in EMS call volume, which imposed great pressure on …

The 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory epidemic is creating a stressed situation in all
the health systems of the affected countries. Emergency medical systems and specifically …

Objective To quantify how the first public announcement of confirmed coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID‐19) in Italy affected a metropolitan region's emergency medical services …

Background During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a lockdown was imposed on
the Danish society. Reports from other countries that were hit by the COVID-19 pandemic …