ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Changes in Prehospital Stroke Care and Stroke Mimic Patterns during the COVID-19 Lockdown.
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- Association of the COVID-19 pandemic on stroke admissions and treatment globally: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
- The stroke meta-metric, Defect-Free Care, was maintained year-over-year within the Florida stroke registry during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2025Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prehospital emergency medical service: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Prehospital Stroke Care, Paramedic Training Needs, and Hospital-Directed Feedback in Lithuania.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The impact of a comprehensive national policy on improving acute stroke patient care in Lithuania.European stroke journal · 2022Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic-Revealed Consistencies and Inconsistencies in Healthcare: A Medical and Organizational View.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Reperfusion Therapies for Acute Ischemic Stroke in COVID-19 Patients: A Nationwide Multi-Center Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on prehospital emergency care for adults with stroke and transient ischaemic attack: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.HRB open research · 2022Article
- Comparing Emergency Medical Services Processing Times for Stroke Patients Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic; A Cross-sectional Study.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2022Article
- The impact of home quarantine during COVID-19 lockdown on neurological hospitalizations, in-hospital mortality, and acute ischemic stroke management in older patients without COVID-19.Clinical neurology and neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Interactive Training of the Emergency Medical Services Improved Prehospital Stroke Recognition and Transport Time.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Trends in Stroke Presentations before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of stroke · 2022Article
- The Impact of the Pandemic on Acute Ischaemic Stroke Endovascular Treatment from a Multidisciplinary Perspective: A Nonsystematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on prehospital stroke care is largely unknown. We aimed to compare stroke care patterns before and during a state-wide lockdown. Thus, we analysed prospective data of stroke alerts referred to our stroke centre between 1 December 2019 and 16 June 2020, and compared them between two periods-15 weeks before and 13 weeks during the state-wide lockdown declared in Lithuania on 16 March 2020. Among 719 referrals for suspected stroke, there was a decrease in stroke alerts (rate ratio 0.61, 95% CI (0.52-0.71)), stroke admissions (0.63, 95% CI (0.52-0.76)), and decrease in prehospital stroke triage quality (positive predictive value 72.1% vs. 79.9%,
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