Confirmation of COVID-19 in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients and Postmortem Management in the Emergency Department during the COVID-19 Outbreak.
Changho KimIn Hwan YeoJong Kun KimYeonjoo ChoMi Jin LeeHaewon JungJae Wan ChoJi Yeon HamSuk Hee LeeHan Sol ChungYou Ho MoonSang-Hun LeeYang Hun Kimnull nullPublished in: Infection & chemotherapy (2020)
The screening tools that combined fever or abnormal CXR had a good discriminatory ability for COVID-19 infection in adult patients with OHCA. Therefore, during the COVID-19 outbreak period, it is recommended to suspect COVID-19 infection and perform COVID-19 test if patients present with a history of fever or show abnormal findings in postmortem CXR.