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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on visits to the hospital emergency service in two hospitals in Spain, from March 14, 2020 to June 21, 2020
This study will describe trends in the use of emergency departments before and after the Spanish State of Alarm, especially in pathologies not directly related to this infection. A cross-sectional study was conducted of all visits to the emergency departments in two third-level hospitals in two Spanish communities during the Spanish State of Alarm, compared with the same period of the previous year. The variables collected included the day of the week, the time of the visit, the duration of the visit, the final destination of the patients (home, admission to a conventional hospitalization ward, admission to the intensive c...
Source: Internal and Emergency Medicine - June 12, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research

A case-control analysis of stroke in Covid-19 patients: Results of Unusual Manifestations of Covid-19-Study 11
CONCLUSIONS: The incidence of stroke in COVID-19 patients presenting to EDs was lower than in the non-COVID-19 reference sample. COVID-19 patients with stroke had greater need for hospitalization and ICU admission than those without stroke, and longer hospitalization and greater in-hospital mortality than non-COVID-19 patients with stroke.PMID:34490961 | DOI:10.1111/acem.14389
Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - September 7, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Eric Jorge Garc ía-Lamberechts Òscar Miró Marcos Fragiel Pere Llorens S ònia Jiménez Pascual Pi ñera Guillermo Burillo Alfonso Mart ín Francisco Javier Mart ín-Sánchez Javier Jacob Aitor Alqu ézar-Arbé Laura Ejarque Mart ínez Bel én Rodrígue Source Type: research