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Impact of COVID-19 on pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Masovian region

Jaroslaw Meyer-Szary1, Milosz J. Jaguszewski2, Jacek Smereka34, Aleksandra Gasecka5, Mohamed S. Emam5, Ivo John5, Zubaid Rafique6, Frank W. Peacock6, Francesco Chirico78, Dorota Sagan9, Marta Jachowicz9, Lukasz Szarpak1011
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Disaster Emerg Med J 2021;6(4):183-185.
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  1. Department of Paediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Diseases, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
  2. 1st Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
  3. Department of Emergency Medical Service, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
  4. Polish Society of Disaster Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
  5. 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
  6. Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas, United States
  7. Post-graduate School of Occupational Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
  8. Health Service Department, Italian State Police, Milan, Italy
  9. Students Research Club, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medical Academy in Warsaw, Poland
  10. Institute of Outcomes Research; Maria Sklodowska-Curie Medical Academy in Warsaw, Poland
  11. Research Unit, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Bialystok Oncology Center, Bialystok, Poland

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Vol 6, No 4 (2021)
RESEARCH LETTERS
Published online: 2021-11-02

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out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, OHCA, pediatric, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19

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Title

Impact of COVID-19 on pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Masovian region

Journal

Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal

Issue

Vol 6, No 4 (2021)

Article type

Letter to the Editor

Pages

183-185

Published online

2021-11-02

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DOI

10.5603/DEMJ.a2021.0028

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Disaster Emerg Med J 2021;6(4):183-185.

Keywords

out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
OHCA
pediatric
SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19

Authors

Jaroslaw Meyer-Szary
Milosz J. Jaguszewski
Jacek Smereka
Aleksandra Gasecka
Mohamed S. Emam
Ivo John
Zubaid Rafique
Frank W. Peacock
Francesco Chirico
Dorota Sagan
Marta Jachowicz
Lukasz Szarpak

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