The nursing staff saw it coming, prevention was, on the subject, very present. But collateral damage from containment measures as part of the fight against the spread of coronavirus was partly inevitable: cardiac arrests
In some cases, for certain treatments, the drugs were suspected of causing complications. This is the case, from the start of the epidemic, of ibuprofen, for example. So National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) did she put the covid19-medicaments.com website online to check the risk of worsening treatment in case of symptoms.
“Do not stop any of your usual treatments without talking to a doctor or pharmacist“, warns the platform.
Despite this, according to a study published in the journal The Lancet, which is no longer presented, the number of heart attacks has doubled in the Paris region if we compare the confinement period to the same period last year.
90% of cardiac arrests take place at home
This research, as BFM TV explains, by researcher Eloi Marijon at Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (Inserm / University of Paris) in collaboration with Daniel Jost (Paris Fire Brigade), explain that 521 cardiac arrests were identified in the Paris region in six weeks.
This leads us to a rate of 26.6 cardiac arrests per 1 million inhabitants. Between 2012 and 2019 at the same period, this rate was 13.4 cardiac arrests per 1 million inhabitants, according to a press release from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) cited by BFM TV.
According to the study, this significant increase is explained by two main factors. First, therefore, a drop in follow-up of people with heart disease or at risk. Then 90% of these cardiac arrests occurred, confinement oblige, at the victims’ homes, where it is rarer to find someone who knows first aid.
Added to this is a longer intervention time, which has also contributed to higher mortality rate.
