COVID-19 and the Threat to Bystander CPR in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, by Sarah Perman.
The world continues to be entrenched in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has significantly affected our daily interpersonal interactions, including community response to public emergencies that require bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (bCPR). For healthcare workers on the front line of COVID-19 care, our reality is a spectrum of disease that ranges from the mildly symptomatic patient to the critically ill, hypoxic, crashing patient.