Stroke Patients' Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes: A Pre-Post COVID-19 Comparison Study

Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic may not have caused disruptions of acute stroke care in our primary stroke centre. Our data indicated that the number of ischaemic stroke events remained stable, with a significant increase of recanalisation therapies and better in-hospital workflow metrics during the COVID-19 pandemic period. However, we would like to highlight that the burden of COVID-19 cases in the study area was very low. Therefore, the study may not have captured the true burden (and relevant delays in stroke patient management) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The effect of the pandemic crisis is ongoing and both pre-hospital and in-hospital care systems must continue to provide optimal, highly time-dependent stroke care services.PMID:34069433 | DOI:10.3390/medicina57050507

Source: Medicina (Kaunas) - June 2, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Hong Chuan Loh Kar Keong Neoh Angelina Siing Ngi Tang Chen Joo Chin Purnima Devi Suppiah Irene Looi Khang Wen Goh Ching Siang Tan Long Chiau Ming Source Type: research