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Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin
OBJECTIVES: A decrease in Emergency Department (ED) visits for cardiac conditions has recently been reported from the US and Western Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data are still scant, and the correlation between cardiac symptoms and confirmed diagnoses are not available. There are no rep...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33208182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05381-y |
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author | Butt, Adeel A. Kartha, Anand Asaad, Nidal Azad, Aftab M. Bertollini, Roberto Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi |
author_facet | Butt, Adeel A. Kartha, Anand Asaad, Nidal Azad, Aftab M. Bertollini, Roberto Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi |
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description | OBJECTIVES: A decrease in Emergency Department (ED) visits for cardiac conditions has recently been reported from the US and Western Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data are still scant, and the correlation between cardiac symptoms and confirmed diagnoses are not available. There are no reports on changes in ED volumes at a national level, or from countries in the Asia-Middle Eastern region. We report data from national referral centers for tertiary care and cardiac care centers in Qatar, which see > 80% of cardiac emergencies in the country. RESULTS: We analyzed 102,033 ED visits in the COVID-19-era (March–April 2020 and 2019) and determined the proportion presenting for cardiac symptoms and their confirmed diagnoses. We observed a 16–37% decline in ED volumes overall, with a 25–50% decline in patients presenting with cardiac symptoms in March and April 2020 compared with March and April 2019. Among those presenting with cardiac symptoms, we observed a 24–43% decline in cardiac diagnoses in March and April 2020 compared with March and April 2019. |
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spelling | pubmed-76721682020-11-18 Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin Butt, Adeel A. Kartha, Anand Asaad, Nidal Azad, Aftab M. Bertollini, Roberto Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVES: A decrease in Emergency Department (ED) visits for cardiac conditions has recently been reported from the US and Western Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data are still scant, and the correlation between cardiac symptoms and confirmed diagnoses are not available. There are no reports on changes in ED volumes at a national level, or from countries in the Asia-Middle Eastern region. We report data from national referral centers for tertiary care and cardiac care centers in Qatar, which see > 80% of cardiac emergencies in the country. RESULTS: We analyzed 102,033 ED visits in the COVID-19-era (March–April 2020 and 2019) and determined the proportion presenting for cardiac symptoms and their confirmed diagnoses. We observed a 16–37% decline in ED volumes overall, with a 25–50% decline in patients presenting with cardiac symptoms in March and April 2020 compared with March and April 2019. Among those presenting with cardiac symptoms, we observed a 24–43% decline in cardiac diagnoses in March and April 2020 compared with March and April 2019. BioMed Central 2020-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7672168/ /pubmed/33208182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05381-y 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/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Butt, Adeel A. Kartha, Anand Asaad, Nidal Azad, Aftab M. Bertollini, Roberto Abou-Samra, Abdul-Badi Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin |
title | Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672168/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33208182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05381-y |
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