• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

Hospital Discharge and Readmissions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic for California Acute Stroke Inpatients
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, with approximately 795,000 new strokes occurring annually, including acute ischemic stroke (AIS), intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).1 The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted all levels of care for stroke patients, such as delays in initial presentation, reduction in acute therapies, limitations of in-patient resources, delays or lack of initiation of secondary stroke prevention therapy, and limitations in rehabilitation services after hospital discharge.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - June 23, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: George P. Albert, Daryl C. McHugh, Debra E. Roberts, Adam G. Kelly, Remi Okwechime, Robert G. Holloway, Benjamin P. George Source Type: research

Exploring the relationship between Air Quality and Ischemic Stroke Admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Amongst all the global catastrophe due to Coronavirus disease 2019, a significant bright spot is a reduction in air pollution as countries undergo lockdowns to limit the spread of infection. Another reduction that has been reported is in the number of strokes presenting to hospitals, despite the virus implicated in causing a hypercoagulable state. Acute exposure to air pollution has been linked to increase in stroke incidence and the improvement in air quality may be responsible for the decrease in stroke presentations.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - May 9, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Sajid Hameed, Maria Khan, Zafar Fatmi, Mohammad Wasay Source Type: research

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on stroke severity and mortality in the south-east of Santiago, Chile
Background and purpose: Chile has been one of the most affected countries by the COVID-19 pandemic, with one of the highest case rates per population. This has affected the epidemiological behaviour of various pathologies. We analyze the impact of the pandemic on the number of admissions due to stroke, its severity and mortality in Santiago, Chile.Methods: a multicenter observational study based on the records of the 3 hospitals of the South East health service in Santiago, Chile. We recorded the number of patients admitted for ischemic stroke between 01 January 2020 and 30 June 2020.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - June 18, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Andres Silva-Pozo, Jose Vallejos, Juan Almeida, Mariano Martoni, Reinaldo Uribe-San Martin, Mar ía Miranda, Pablo Diaz, Dominga García, Victor Navía Source Type: research

Acute Stroke Care in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic respiratory disease with serious public health risk, and has taken the world off guard with its rapid spread. As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, overwhelming the healthcare system and the medical community, current practice for the management of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) will require modification, and guidelines should be relaxed while maintaining high standard quality of care. The aim of these suggestions is to avoid contributing to the rapid spread of COVID-19 as well as to conserve what are likely to be very limited resources (including personnel, intensive care/hos...
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - April 16, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Rima M Dafer, Nicholas D Osteraas, Jose Biller MD Source Type: research

The Impact of COVID-19 on Acute Ischemic Stroke Admissions: Analysis from a Community-Based Tertiary Care Center
To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions and outcomes in patients admitted with acute ischemic stroke.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - September 24, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Jing Wang, Saqib A. Chaudhry, Pouya Tahsili-Fahadan, Laith R. Altaweel, Sairah Bashir, Zelalem Bahiru, Yun Fang, Adnan I. Qureshi Tags: Original Investigation - Rapid Communications Source Type: research

Stroke systems of care in the Philippines: Addressing gaps and developing strategies
In the Philippines, the mortality from stroke during the last 10 years remains high. This paper aims to describe the gaps in stroke care and the development of stroke systems of care in the Philippines. Gaps in stroke systems of care include low number of neurologist, inadequate CT scan machines, lack of stroke training among health workers, lack of stroke protocols and pathways, poor community stroke awareness, low government insurance coverage with high out of pocket medical expenses, lack of infrastructure for EMS, inadequate acute stroke ready hospitals, stroke units and rehabilitation facilities. Although there are go...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - November 24, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

The COVID-19 pandemic effect on the prehospital Madrid stroke code metrics and diagnostic accuracy
by Nicol ás Riera-López, Andrea Gaetano-Gil, José Martínez-Gómez, Nuria Rodríguez-Rodil, Borja M. Fernández-Félix, Jorge Rodríguez-Pardo, Carmen Cuadrado-Hernández, Emmanuel Pelayo Martínez-González, Alicia Villar-Arias, Fátima Gutiérrez-Sánchez, Pablo Busca-Ostolaza, Eduardo Montero-Ruiz, Exu perio Díez-Tejedor, Javier Zamora, Blanca Fuentes-Gimeno, on behalf of the Madrid Stroke Network BackgroundOnly very few studies have investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pre-hospital stroke code protocol. During the first wave, Spain was one of the most affected countries by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavi...
Source: PLoS One - October 10, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Nicol ás Riera-López Source Type: research

Trends in Intensive Care Admissions and Outcomes of Stroke Patients Over 10 Years in Brazil: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chest. 2022 Nov 5:S0012-3692(22)04049-1. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.10.033. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected stroke care worldwide. Data from low- and middle-income countries is limited.RESEARCH QUESTION: What was the impact of the pandemic in intensive care admissions and outcomes of patients with stroke, in comparison to trends over the last ten years?STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Retrospective cohort study including prospectively collected data from 165 ICUs in Brazil between 2011 and 2020. We analyzed clinical characteristics and mortality over a period of 10 years ...
Source: Chest - November 8, 2022 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Pedro Kurtz Leonardo S L Bastos Fernando G Zampieri Gabriel R de Freitas Fernando A Bozza Marcio Soares Jorge I F Salluh Source Type: research

COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Care for Stroke in Australia: Emerging Evidence From the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry
We present information on acute stroke care for the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia using data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR). The first case of COVID-19 in Australia was recorded in late January 2020 and national restrictions to control the virus commenced in March. To account for seasonal effects of stroke admissions, patient-level data from the registry from January to June 2020 were compared to the same period in 2019 (historical-control) from 61 public hospitals. We compared periods using descriptive statistics and performed interrupted time series analyses. Perceptions of stroke...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - February 26, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Changes in ischemic stroke presentations, management and outcomes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta: a population study
CMAJ. 2022 Mar 28;194(12):E444-E455. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.211003.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Pandemics may promote hospital avoidance, and added precautions may exacerbate treatment delays for medical emergencies such as stroke. We sought to evaluate ischemic stroke presentations, management and outcomes during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.METHODS: We conducted a population-based study, using linked administrative and stroke registry data from Alberta to identify all patients presenting with stroke before the pandemic (Jan. 1, 2016 to Feb. 27, 2020) and in 5 periods over the first pandemic year (Feb. 28, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2...
Source: cmaj - March 29, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Aravind Ganesh Jillian M Stang Finlay A McAlister Oleksandr Shlakhter Jessalyn K Holodinsky Balraj Mann Michael D Hill Eric E Smith Source Type: research

Pages: 1  2  3  4