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Impact of COVID-19 on stroke caseload in a major HyperAcute Stroke Unit
Northwick Park Hospital in London, United Kingdom (UK) is one of the busiest stroke units in the country and is located in one of the areas most heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020. Admissions to the stroke unit and changes during the peak of COVID-19 were reviewed. Compared with the previous year, mean 96 patients were admitted with suspected stroke during April and May 2020 compared with mean 116 per month in non-COVID periods, ratio 0.82, P=0.01. This reduction involved both strokes and mimics and was unlikely to have occurred by chance.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - October 5, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Fionn Mag Uidhir, Raj Bathula, Aravinth Sivagnanaratnam, Mudhar Abdul-Saheb, Joseph Devine, David L. Cohen Source Type: research
Impact of COVID-19 on stroke admissions, treatments, and outcomes at a comprehensive stroke centre in the United Kingdom
ConclusionsDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of stroke admissions fell, and stroke severity increased. There was no statistically significant change in the delivery of thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy and no increase in mortality.
Source: Neurological Sciences - October 5, 2020 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on a Regional Stroke Thrombectomy Service in the United Kingdom
Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the stroke admission numbers but not stroke thrombectomy rate, successful recanalization rate, or early neurological outcome. Internal delays actually improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further studies should examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on longer term outcome.Cerebrovasc Dis
Source: Cerebrovascular Diseases - December 11, 2020 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Study Documents Neurological, Psychiatric Complications From COVID-19
While previous studies and case reports have found that COVID-19 patients have experienced vascular and neurological problems, a newstudy inthe Lancet Psychiatry reports that patients are also showing symptoms of psychiatric disorders, including psychosis and depression.The study was the result of a collaborative effort of specialists in the United Kingdom to document COVID-19 complications.“To our knowledge, this is the first systematic, nationwide U.K. surveillance study of the breadth of acute complications of COVID-19 in the nervous system,” wrote Aravinthan Varatharaj, M.R.C.P., of University Hospital Southampton ...
Source: Psychiatr News - June 29, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Aravinthan Varatharaj brain hemorrhage brain inflammation cognition COVID-19 depression Lancet Psychiatry pain psychiatric disorders psychosis stroke United Kingdom weakness Source Type: research
Restoration and recovery of stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic, British Association of Stroke Physicians
Restoration and recovery of stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic assesses the impact of rapid changes made across the whole stroke pathway – including community services – at the peak of the pandemic, outlining new ways of working which have been beneficial for both patients and staff and should be continued and extended. It also aims to highlight those changes which now need a closer look and prevent a return to less effective way s of working.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Adapting stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic: an implementation guide, British Association of Stroke Physicians
Guidance for adapting stroke services during the COVID-19 pandemic – and reshaping them afterwards – has been made available in a collaboration between the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme and the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Asians at Higher Risk of COVID-Linked Stroke: Study
MONDAY, Nov. 9, 2020 -- Asian COVID-19 patients in the United Kingdom have a higher stroke risk than other racial/ethnic groups, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed data on 1,470 stroke patients admitted to 13 hospitals in England and Scotland...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Acute stroke showing cerebral infarcts and microbleeds in a 31-year-old man with COVID-19 pneumonia.
PMID: 32845754 [PubMed - in process]
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - August 1, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Planinc D, El-Rekaby A, Sivakumar R, Saksena R, Ngeh J Tags: Br J Hosp Med (Lond) Source Type: research
Study examines the benefits of virtual stroke rehabilitation programs
(University of British Columbia Okanagan campus) While virtual medical and rehabilitation appointments seemed novel when COVID-19 first appeared, they now seem to be part of the new norm and might be paving the way to the future.A recent review paper, co-authored by Brodie Sakakibara with the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management (CCDPM) has determined that virtual appointments, in the form of telerehabilitation, also work for people recovering from a stroke.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Stroke With Delayed Visit to the Emergency Department: The Next Public Crisis?
We read with great interest the article by Montagnon et al. about the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on emergency department (EDs) (1). The authors described how daily visits dropped in their ED, but the COVID-19 pandemic does not seem to have had an effect on patients needing emergency revascularization (ST-segment elevatio n myocardial infarction and stroke). However, in the United Kingdom, Fersia et al. experienced a 33% drop in myocardial infarction diagnosis, Ullah et al.
Source: The Journal of Emergency Medicine - June 1, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Hugo De Carvalho, Pierre Urlacher, Nicolas Goffinet, Emmanuel Montassier Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research
Special report of the RSNA COVID-19 task force: systematic review of outcomes associated with COVID-19 neuroimaging findings in hospitalized patients
CONCLUSION: Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients with abnormal neuroimaging findings, those with ICH had the highest all-cause mortality; however, high mortality rates were also seen among COVID-19 patients with ischemic stroke in the acute/subacute period and leukoencephalopathy in the chronic period.ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE: Specific abnormal neuroimaging findings may portend differential mortality outcomes, providing a potential prognostic marker for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.PMID:33914618 | DOI:10.1259/bjr.20210149
Source: The British Journal of Radiology - April 29, 2021 Category: Radiology Authors: Monique A Mogensen Pattana Wangaryattawanich Jason Hartman Christopher G Filippi Daniel S Hippe Nathan M Cross Source Type: research
COVID-19 and its cardiovascular effects: a systematic review of prevalence studies
In this short interview, Prof. John GF Cleland, senior author ofthis recently published Cochrane review, tells us about what this review found regarding the type of heart and blood vessel problems that complicate COVID-19 infections.Tell us about this review.This review first focuses on cardiovascular problems pre-existing the development of COVID, usually in cases that were severe enough to require hospitalization. We know that older people are more likely to have cardiovascular disease and to be admitted with severe COVID. We are only looking at associations. It is unclear whether cardiovascular disease or age was the...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - March 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Rachel Klabunde Source Type: news
Our Diets Are Changing Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Is It for the Better?
The coronavirus pandemic has changed a lot about modern American life: how we work, socialize, and even how we eat. Dining out is a distant memory.
But nutritionally, people weren’t exactly thriving in pre-pandemic America. “Before COVID-19 came along, it was increasingly clear that the diet quality and nutritional status of Americans was terrible,” says Dr. Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. More than 40% of U.S. adults are obese. After years of declines, heart disease death rates are on the rise again. So are rates of obesity-linked canc...
Source: TIME: Health - April 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mandy Oaklander Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Forgetting ‘routine’ DVT and stroke during COVID-19 is a parallel pandemic that will be costly if ignored
The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a huge strategic and clinical change within the UK National Health Service (NHS) to ensure it can cope with the surge in demand of respiratory patients. However, when attention is acutely shifted, routine care will suffer and that could be deadly for some, and enormously expensive for the NHS in the long-term. Figure 1A shows the increasing public interest over time relating to COVID-19 search terms in the Google Trends ® health category for the United Kingdom (UK) over the last 30 days.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - April 29, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Steven K. Rogers, Michael Hughes Source Type: research
Forgetting “routine” DVT and stroke during COVID-19 is a parallel pandemic that will be costly if ignored
The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a huge strategic and clinical change within the UK National Health Service (NHS) to ensure that it can cope with the surge in demand of respiratory patients. However, when attention is acutely shifted, routine care will suffer and that could be deadly for some and enormously expensive for the NHS in the long term. Fig, A, shows the increasing public interest over time relating to COVID-19 search terms in the Google Trends health category for the United Kingdom (UK) over the last 30 days.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - April 29, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Steven K. Rogers, Michael Hughes Source Type: research
