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Where have our patients gone? The impact of COVID ‐19 on stroke imaging and intervention at an Australian stroke centre
ConclusionsThe significant decrease in volume of ‘code stroke’ activations and acute stroke imaging following lockdown was accompanied by a concomitant decrease in patients with LVOs and ECRs. The decrease in imaging was therefore not driven purely by patients with mild strokes and stroke mimics, but also included those with severe strokes. Si nce Australia had a low prevalence of COVID‐19, this observed decrease cannot be attributed to hospital congestion and is instead likely driven by patient fear.
Source: Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology - August 19, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Shalini A Amukotuwa, Roland Bammer, Julian Maingard Tags: Medical Imaging —Original Article Source Type: research

Emergency department presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Queensland (to June 2021): interrupted time series analysis
CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic and related public restrictions were associated with profound changes in health care use. Pandemic plans should include advice about continuing to seek care for serious health conditions and health emergencies, and support alternative sources of care for less urgent health care needs.PMID:36567660 | DOI:10.5694/mja2.51819
Source: Medical Journal of Australia - December 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Amy L Sweeny Gerben Keijzers Andrea Marshall Emma J Hall Jamie Ranse Ping Zhang Gary Grant Ya-Ling Huang Dinesh Palipana Yang D Teng Benjamin Gerhardy Jaimi H Greenslade Philip Jones Julia L Crilly Source Type: research

Validation of two severity scores as predictors for outcome in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
by Christian Salbach, Matthias Mueller-Hennessen, Moritz Biener, Kiril M. Stoyanov, Mehrshad Vafaie, Michael R. Preusch, Lars P. Kihm, Uta Merle, Paul Schnitzler, Hugo A. Katus, Evangelos Giannitsis BackgroundAn established objective and standardized reporting of clinical severity and disease progression in COVID-19 is still not established. We validated and compared the usefulness of two classification systems reported earlier –a severity grading proposed by Siddiqi and a system from the National Australian COVID-19 guideline. Both had not been validated externally and were now tested for their ability to predict compli...
Source: PLoS One - February 19, 2021 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Christian Salbach Source Type: research