Collateral Effect of Covid-19 on Stroke Evaluation in the United States

The authors reviewed an imaging database used to determine whether patients with acute stroke were eligible to undergo endovascular thrombectomy. They found a 39% decrease in daily use of this imaging from a 29-day prepandemic period in February 2020 to a 14-day early-pandemic period from late March...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine 2020-07, Vol.383 (4), p.400-401
Hauptverfasser:	Kansagra, Akash P, Goyal, Manu S, Hamilton, Scott, Albers, Gregory W
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Betacoronavirus Cardiovascular system Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology Coronaviruses Correspondence COVID-19 Databases, Factual General & Internal Medicine Humans Life Sciences & Biomedicine Medicine, General & Internal Neuroimaging - statistics & numerical data Neuroimaging - trends Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology SARS-CoV-2 Science & Technology Software Stroke Stroke - diagnostic imaging Stroke - epidemiology United States
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Zusammenfassung:	The authors reviewed an imaging database used to determine whether patients with acute stroke were eligible to undergo endovascular thrombectomy. They found a 39% decrease in daily use of this imaging from a 29-day prepandemic period in February 2020 to a 14-day early-pandemic period from late March through early April.
ISSN:	0028-4793 1533-4406
DOI:	10.1056/NEJMc2014816