Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on ischemic stroke admissions and in-hospital mortality in North-West Spain
| Autor: | María Herrera Isasi, Mercedes de Lera Alfonso, Javier Marta Moreno, María M. García, Juan José Timiraos Fernández, Álvaro Lambea Gil, María Castañón Apilánez, Yésica Jiménez López, Iria Beltrán Rodríguez, Jon Segurola Olaizola, Francisco Julian-Villaverde, Agustín Sancho Saldaña, Patricia de la Riva Juez, Ignacio Casado Menéndez, Javier Tejada García, Carlos Tejero Juste, Alain Luna Rodriguez, Juan Marta Enguita, Emilio Castro, Mar Castellanos-Rodrigo, Ana Echavarría Iñiguez, Joaquín Sánchez, Alexia Roel, Cristina Pérez Lázaro, Juan F. Arenillas, Susana Arias Rivas, Maite Martínez-Zabaleta, Enrique Jesús Palacio Portilla, Elena López-Cancio Martínez, José María Trejo-Gabriel-Galán, Herbert Tejada Meza, Mar Freijo |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Tejada Meza, Herbert [0000-0002-6506-1037], Lambea-Gil, Álvaro [0000-0003-1785-9201], Arenillas, Juan F. [0000-0001-7464-6101], Trejo-Gabriel-Galán, José María [0000-0001-9591-8452], Tejada Meza, Herbert, Lambea-Gil, Álvaro, Arenillas, Juan F., Trejo-Gabriel-Galán, José María |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pneumonia Viral stroke care 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Brain Ischemia Tertiary Care Centers Betacoronavirus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pandemic ischemic stroke Humans Medicine Hospital Mortality Mortality Pandemics Stroke Aged Retrospective Studies Ischemic stroke In hospital mortality SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Research Outbreak COVID-19 medicine.disease mortality Hospitalization Neurology North west Spain Stroke care Reperfusion Female Coronavirus Infections business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Demography |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE International Journal of Stroke |
| Popis: | Background and purpose Spain has been one of the countries heavily stricken by COVID-19. But this epidemic has not affected all regions equally. We analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital stroke admissions and in-hospital mortality in tertiary referral hospitals from North-West Spain. Methods Spanish multicenter retrospective observational study based on data from tertiary hospitals of the NORDICTUS network. We recorded the number of patients admitted for ischemic stroke between 30 December 2019 and 3 May 2020, the number of IVT and EVT procedures, and in-hospital mortality. Results In the study period, 2737 patients were admitted with ischemic stroke. There was a decrease in the weekly mean admitted patients during the pandemic (124 vs. 173, p Conclusion We found a decrease in the number of ischemic stroke admissions and an increase in in-hospital mortality during the COVID-19 epidemic in this large study from North-West Spain. There were regional changes within the network, not fully explained by the severity of the pandemic in different regions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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