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Neurohospitalist
; 11(2): 137-140, 2021 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-788577
ABSTRACT
Stroke is a catastrophic medical disease with roughly 795,000 cases per year in the US. We strove to explore whether stroke admissions to a comprehensive stroke center in an area with moderately-low COVID-19 burden changed and if so, to better define the characteristics of the patients and their presentation. We performed a retrospective analysis of all patients with strokes admitted to Intermountain Medical Center. There was a 43% reduction in patients' presentations across all stroke types compared to average April patient volume over the prior 3 years. Likely this was due to a myriad of complex factors which we may retrospectively be able to more fully understand in the years to come.