ReviewJournal of neurology2021
Stroke care in Italy at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: a lesson to learn.
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- Secondary stroke evaluation in patients admitted for CRAO in a large national inpatient sample.Stroke and vascular neurology · 2026Article
- COVID-19 and stroke in women: impact on clinical, psychosocial and research aspects.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Review
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergent stroke care in Beijing, China.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A "Post-mortem" of COVID-19-associated stroke: a case-control study.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2022Observational
- [Adaptation and feasibility of the online version of the Fugl Meyer scale for the assessment of patients following cerebrovascular accidents].Revista de neurologia · 2022Article
- Changes in Acute Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and Heart Failure Hospitalizations During COVID-19 Pandemic in Tuscany-An Interrupted Time Series Study.International journal of public health · 2022Article
- Hospital admissions of acute cerebrovascular diseases during and after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a state-wide experience from Austria.Journal of neurology · 2021Article
- Area-level indicators of income and total mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.European journal of public health · 2021Article
- Does COVID-19 Impact Less on Post-stroke Aphasia? This Is Not the Case.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
From March to May 2020, the Italian health care system, as many others, was almost entirely devoted to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, a number of questions arose, from the increased stroke risk due to COVID-19 infection to the quality of stroke patient care. The overwhelming need of COVID-19 patient management made mandatory a complete re-organization of the stroke pathways: many health professionals were reallocated and a number of stroke units was turned into COVID-19 wards. As a result, acute stroke care suffered from a shortage of services and delays in time-dependent treatments and diagnostic work-up. In-patient and out-patient care and rehabilitation facilities for stroke survivors were also reduced or slowed down, to direct resources to COVID-19 patients care and to reduce contagion risks. Overall, this is likely to result in a significant future increased burden of complications and disabilities that will impact the health care systems in the coming months. Thus, while still fighting against COVID-19 disease, authorities need to promptly implement robust action plans, including an increase of workforce, without forgetting the assurance of a high level of stroke care. The medical community and the health care administrators should always keep in mind that stroke was before, and will be after the pandemic, a, sometimes, life-threatening condition, and almost always a disease with a severe impact on the quality of life.
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