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Course: Frequency and Risk of Emergency Medical Service Interhospital Transportation of Patients With Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Illness During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2022-01-28

Surges in hospital COVID-19 caseloads are detrimental to patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and other conditions. Transporting patients out of hospitals before reaching critically high caseloads might improve outcomes. However, patients with COVID-19 requiring transfer are often unstable; evidence on the safety of transporting patients with COVID-19 is scarce., We leveraged a national emergency medical services (EMS) database to compare the frequency of interhospital transportation events and associated life-threatening deterioration during transport among patients with acute lower respiratory tract illness (LRTI) during (vs before) the pandemic.


Educational Objective
To identify the key insights or developments described in this article


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