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cord-274199-3stjueja	Baldi, Enrico	COVID-19 kills at home: the close relationship between the epidemic and the increase of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests	2020-06-20		.txt	text/plain	4307	193	48	Our aim was to assess whether the difference in the number of OHCAs between 2020 and 2019 was statistically correlated with the COVID-19 epidemic trend and to look for clinical pre-hospital elements supporting this evidence. All the Emergency Medical System (EMS) electronic records have been reanalysed and the number of patients with suspected COVID-19 (fever for at least 3 days before OHCA associated with cough and/or dyspnoea) or with a diagnostic pharyngeal swab (performed before OHCA or after death) have been computed. We highlighted an increase in medical aetiology over other types of aetiologies, and this further reinforces the hypothesis that the increase in the incidence of OHCAs is probably related to the direct (i.e. respiratory failure at home, SCD due to SARS-CoV-2 myocardial involvement or treatment) or indirect (i.e. lack of EMS activation in the case of time-dependent pathologies) effect of the COVID-19 epidemic.	./cache/cord-274199-3stjueja.txt	./txt/cord-274199-3stjueja.txt