Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era

We present the case of a 91-year-old patient scheduled for a preoperative telehealth evaluation who was found to have altered mental status from an acute stroke. Her care, if delayed, could have caused permanent morbidity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This case highlights...

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Autores principales: Canales, Cecilia, Martinez, Lydiesther, Kamdar, Nirav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Anesthesiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33859883
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13812
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description We present the case of a 91-year-old patient scheduled for a preoperative telehealth evaluation who was found to have altered mental status from an acute stroke. Her care, if delayed, could have caused permanent morbidity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This case highlights the digital leap the pandemic spurred: 1. telehealth in the elderly, 2. meaningful history and physical during telehealth visit, 3. family engagement and education, and 4. meaningful impact on patient outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-80388952021-04-14 Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era Canales, Cecilia Martinez, Lydiesther Kamdar, Nirav Cureus Anesthesiology We present the case of a 91-year-old patient scheduled for a preoperative telehealth evaluation who was found to have altered mental status from an acute stroke. Her care, if delayed, could have caused permanent morbidity during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This case highlights the digital leap the pandemic spurred: 1. telehealth in the elderly, 2. meaningful history and physical during telehealth visit, 3. family engagement and education, and 4. meaningful impact on patient outcomes. Cureus 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8038895/ /pubmed/33859883 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13812 Text en Copyright © 2021, Canales et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Anesthesiology
Canales, Cecilia
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Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era
title Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era
title_full Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era
title_fullStr Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era
title_full_unstemmed Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era
title_short Cerebrovascular Accident Manifesting as Altered Mental Status During a Telehealth Visit: Preoperative Evaluation in the COVID-19 Era
title_sort cerebrovascular accident manifesting as altered mental status during a telehealth visit: preoperative evaluation in the covid-19 era
topic Anesthesiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33859883
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13812
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