{"id":7229,"date":"2020-05-29T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7229"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:19:08","slug":"excess-out-of-hospital-deaths-during-covid-19-outbreak-evidence-of-pulmonary-embolism-as-a-main-determinant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/excess-out-of-hospital-deaths-during-covid-19-outbreak-evidence-of-pulmonary-embolism-as-a-main-determinant\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess Out-of-Hospital Deaths during COVID-19 Outbreak: Evidence of Pulmonary Embolism as a Main Determinant"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nvestigat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ors<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Paris<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, France<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0found that pulmonary embolism identified\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">post-mortem CT was much higher among those who had unexplained deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">compared to a control group who had unexplained deaths\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a02019. Furthermore, the prevalence of unexplained deaths was much higher during the COVID-19 outbreak compared to 2019. These results suggest the need for additional PPE when handling\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bodies of persons\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">whose death was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unexplained, and that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pulmonary embolism<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">should be explored in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">severe COVID-19.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Benzakoun\u00a0et al. (May 28, 2020). Excess Out-of-Hospital Deaths during COVID-19 Outbreak: Evidence of Pulmonary Embolism as a Main Determinant. European Journal of Heart Failure.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ejhf.1916\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ejhf.1916<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators\u00a0in\u00a0Paris, France\u00a0found that pulmonary embolism identified\u00a0by\u00a0post-mortem CT was much higher among those who had unexplained deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak\u00a0compared to a control group who had unexplained deaths\u00a0in\u00a02019. Furthermore, the prevalence of unexplained deaths was much higher during the COVID-19 outbreak compared to 2019. These results suggest the need for additional PPE when handling\u00a0bodies of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/excess-out-of-hospital-deaths-during-covid-19-outbreak-evidence-of-pulmonary-embolism-as-a-main-determinant\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7230,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions\/7230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}