ArticleCritical care explorations2024
Ransomware Cyberattack Associated With Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Outcomes at Untargeted, Adjacent Hospitals.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- Unveiling Patient-Level Harms and At-Risk Clinical Groups During Hospital Cyberattacks: Systematic Review of Global Case Studies and Social Media Data.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Sociotechnical Cybersecurity Framework for Securing Health Care From Vulnerabilities and Cyberattacks: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Patient Care Technology Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike Outage.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Digital Disasters: The Growing Threat of Healthcare Ransomware.Anesthesiology · 2025Review
- Cyber-resilient Intensive Care Unit: Ransomware is a Patient-safety Crisis-A Resource-stratified Approach for India.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care MedicineArticle
- The impact of data breach on IT investment at neighboring hospitals: Evidence from California Hospitals.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesHealthcare ransomware cyberattacks have been associated with major regional hospital disruptions, but data reporting patient-oriented outcomes in critical conditions such as cardiac arrest (CA) are limited. This study examined the CA incidence and outcomes of untargeted hospitals adjacent to a ransomware-infected healthcare delivery organization (HDO). DESIGN SETTING AND PATIENTS: This cohort study compared the CA incidence and outcomes of two untargeted academic hospitals adjacent to an HDO under a ransomware cyberattack during the pre-attack (April 3-30, 2021), attack (May 1-28, 2021), and post-attack (May 29, 2021-June 25, 2021) phases.
interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsEmergency department and hospital mean daily census, number of CAs, mean daily CA incidence per 1,000 admissions, return of spontaneous circulation, survival to discharge, and survival with favorable neurologic outcome were measured. The study evaluated 78 total CAs: 44 out-of-hospital CAs (OHCAs) and 34 in-hospital CAs. The number of total CAs increased from the pre-attack to attack phase (21 vs. 38;
conclusionsUntargeted hospitals adjacent to ransomware-infected HDOs may see worse outcomes for patients suffering from OHCA. These findings highlight the critical need for cybersecurity disaster planning and resiliency.
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