Fine particulate matter and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of respiratory origin

We examined the association between short-term exposure to PM2.5 and bystander-witnessed respiratory origin OHCAs, including eventual prognosis. We also investigated differences between PM2.5 exposure-related cardiac and respiratory origin OHCAs.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - June 4, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Kojima, S., Michikawa, T., Matsui, K., Ogawa, H., Yamazaki, S., Nitta, H., Takami, A., Ueda, K., Tahara, Y., Yonemoto, N., Nonogi, H., Nagao, K., Ikeda, T., Kobayashi, Y., for the Japanese Circulation Society With Resuscitation Science Study (JCS-ReSS) Gr Tags: Original Articles: Research letters Source Type: research