In New York City, there was a threefold increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases in March and April as compared to the same period last year, new data shows. For the study, researchers analyzed data from the New York City emergency medical services system for people 18 years or older who suffered a cardiac arrest outside the hospital and received care from emergency medical services. They examined data from March 1 through April 25 and compared it to data for cardiac arrest cases for the same time period in 2019. Study results were published in the journal JAMA Cardiology.
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