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Telemedicine Impact on Post-Stroke Outpatient Follow-up in an Academic Healthcare Network during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The objective of our study was to determine the impact of telemedicine on post-acute stroke clinic follow-up.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - June 21, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Darwish Alabyad, Manet Lemuel-Clarke, Marlyn Antwan, Laura Henriquez, Samir Belagaje, Srikant Rangaraju, Ashlee Mosley, Jacqueline Cabral, Teri Walczak, Moges Ido, Patricia Hashima, Rana Bayakly, Kathyrn Collins, Loretta Sutherly-Bhadsavle, Cynthia Brashe Source Type: research

In Latin America, Heat Warnings Can Prevent Deaths
Residents of Mexico City take shelter from the heat in a covered area, on a central street in the capital, in the month of March, when spring has not even arrived yet in the country. Heat waves will become more frequent and will last longer, due to the climate emergency. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy/IPSBy Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, Mar 14 2023 (IPS) On Mar. 9, more than half of Mexico reported maximum temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, although spring has not even arrived yet in this Latin American country located in the northern hemisphere. In fact, the Megalopolis Environmental Commission, which brings together the federal gov...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Emilio Godoy Tags: Climate Change Development & Aid Editors' Choice Environment Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Categories Extreme Weather heat waves Mexico Source Type: news

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on acute stroke care: An  analysis of the 24-month data from a comprehensive stroke center in Shanghai, China
CONCLUSIONS: During the 24 months of COVID-19, a prolongation of stroke onset to hospital arrival and to intravenous rt-PA administration times were noted. Meanwhile, acute stroke patients needed to stay in the ED for a longer time before hospitalization. Educational system support and process optimization should be pursued in order to acquire timely delivery of stroke care during the pandemic.PMID:36890633 | DOI:10.1111/cns.14148
Source: CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics - March 8, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Qimin Hu Yiming Hu Yue Gu Xiaoyan Song Yijue Shen Haiyan Lu Li Zhang Peifeng Liu Guodong Wang Chunni Guo Kan Fang Qiaoshu Wang Source Type: research

The U.S. Still Doesn ’ t Have Good COVID-19 Data. Here ’ s Why That ’ s a Problem
Check the COVID-19 Data Tracker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and you’ll get a rundown of the latest case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths. Those categories might seem straightforward, but the data, say many experts, are telling us a lot less than we think they are. That’s because it’s getting increasingly difficult to parse who is hospitalized or dies from COVID-19, and who is hospitalized or dies from another reason but with COVID-19. Across the U.S., “COVID-19 hospitalizations” represent all kinds of patients: those who need hospital-level care for sev...
Source: TIME: Health - January 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Prehospital emergency department care activations during the initial COVID-19 pandemic surge
CONCLUSIONS: After the announcement of public health measures to mitigate COVID-19, ED care activations declined in a large Northeast academic ED, followed by post-peak surges in activations as COVID- 19 cases decreased.PMID:35913181 | DOI:10.5055/ajdm.2022.0417
Source: American Journal of Disaster Medicine - August 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rebecca Leff Alex Fleming-Nouri Arjun K Venkatesh Vivek Parwani Craig Rothenberg Rohit B Sangal Colin T Flood Matthew Goldenberg Charles Wira Source Type: research