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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Clinical course of a 66-year-old man with an acute ischaemic stroke in the setting of a COVID-19 infection.

Saajan Basi, Mohammad Hamdan, Shuja Punekar

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Saajan BasiDepartment of Stroke and Acute Medicine, King's Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK saajan.basi@nhs.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7441-6952
Mohammad HamdanDepartment of Stroke and Acute Medicine, King's Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK.
Shuja PunekarDepartment of Stroke and Acute Medicine, King's Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield, UK.
Kings Mill Hospital · GBUniversity Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 66-year-old man was admitted to hospital with a right frontal cerebral infarct producing left-sided weakness and a deterioration in his speech pattern. The cerebral infarct was confirmed with CT imaging. The only evidence of respiratory symptoms on admission was a 2 L oxygen requirement, maintaining oxygen saturations between 88% and 92%. In a matter of hours this patient developed a greater oxygen requirement, alongside reduced levels of consciousness. A positive COVID-19 throat swab, in addition to bilateral pneumonia on chest X-ray and lymphopaenia in his blood tests, confirmed a diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. A proactive decision was made involving the patients' family, ward and intensive care healthcare staff, to not escalate care above a ward-based ceiling of care. The patient died 5 days following admission under the palliative care provided by the medical team.

Indexed as

AgedBetacoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Fatal OutcomeHumansInfarction, Anterior Cerebral ArteryMaleOxygen Inhalation TherapyPalliative CarePandemicsPneumonia, ViralRadiographySARS-CoV-2Tomography, X-Ray Computedglobal healthinfectious diseasesinfluenzarespiratory medicinestroke

Identifiers

PMID32843381
PMCPMC7447108
OpenAlexW3080632313

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