Observational studyInternational journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society2020
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on ischemic stroke admissions and in-hospital mortality in North-West Spain.
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- Impact on functional outcome of an adaptive Stroke Unit based system of care for patients undergoing endovascular treatment during pandemic times.European stroke journal · 2022Article
- Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke Previously Vaccinated Against COVID-19.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2022Observational
- Did the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak affect the quality of acute stroke care? (Data from across the country).European stroke journal · 2022Article
- Scars of stroke care emerge as COVID-19 shifts to an endemic in many countries.Journal of medicine and life · 2022Article
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Abstract
background and purposeSpain 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.
methodsSpanish 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.
resultsIn 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<0.001). In-hospital mortality of stroke patients increased significantly (9.9% vs. 6.5%, p = 0.003), but there were no differences in the proportion of IVT (17.3% vs. 16.1%, p = 0.405) or EVT (22% vs. 23%, p = 0.504).
conclusionWe 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.
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