Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Investigating clinical characteristics of patients presenting with cerebrovascular events during the pandemic may provide valuable insight into further understanding the phenomenon of decreased stroke admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Data of patients presentin...

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Autores principales: Hoyer, Carolin, Weber, Lenja, Sandikci, Vesile, Ebert, Anne, Platten, Michael, Szabo, Kristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7668014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33225224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-020-00094-w
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author Hoyer, Carolin
Weber, Lenja
Sandikci, Vesile
Ebert, Anne
Platten, Michael
Szabo, Kristina
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description BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Investigating clinical characteristics of patients presenting with cerebrovascular events during the pandemic may provide valuable insight into further understanding the phenomenon of decreased stroke admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Data of patients presenting with a cerebrovascular event to the emergency department during weeks 12–17/2020 were compared to data from the respective weeks in 2019. RESULTS: A significant reduction in the number of admissions by 35.9% (p = 0.005) was observed during the COVID-19 epoch. In addition, significantly more patients arrived by ambulance during the COVID-19 epoch (2019: 75.7%, 2020: 94.2%; p = 0.001). CONCLUSION: Our data may have implications as to how campaigns raising awareness for serious medical conditions in the context of the pandemic should be framed.
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spelling pubmed-76680142020-11-16 Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic Hoyer, Carolin Weber, Lenja Sandikci, Vesile Ebert, Anne Platten, Michael Szabo, Kristina Neurol Res Pract Letter to the Editor BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Investigating clinical characteristics of patients presenting with cerebrovascular events during the pandemic may provide valuable insight into further understanding the phenomenon of decreased stroke admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: Data of patients presenting with a cerebrovascular event to the emergency department during weeks 12–17/2020 were compared to data from the respective weeks in 2019. RESULTS: A significant reduction in the number of admissions by 35.9% (p = 0.005) was observed during the COVID-19 epoch. In addition, significantly more patients arrived by ambulance during the COVID-19 epoch (2019: 75.7%, 2020: 94.2%; p = 0.001). CONCLUSION: Our data may have implications as to how campaigns raising awareness for serious medical conditions in the context of the pandemic should be framed. BioMed Central 2020-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7668014/ /pubmed/33225224 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-020-00094-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editor
Hoyer, Carolin
Weber, Lenja
Sandikci, Vesile
Ebert, Anne
Platten, Michael
Szabo, Kristina
Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic
title Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort decreased admissions and change in arrival mode in patients with cerebrovascular events during the first surge of the covid-19 pandemic
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7668014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33225224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-020-00094-w
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