Impact of Heavy Snowfall on Emergency Transport and Prognosis of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients: A Nation-Wide Cohort Study.

Kentaro OmatsuMieko UchiyamaUtako ShimizuYiwei LingShujiro Okuda Yu Koyama

Published in: Prehospital and disaster medicine (2023)

This study showed OHCA in heavy snowfall areas in winter resulted in longer EMS response intervals. However, heavy snowfall had little effect on one-month survival or neurologically-favorable outcome at one month.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
public health
healthcare
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
patient reported
free survival