1. Global Impact of COVID-19 on Stroke Care and IV Thrombolysis
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Nogueira, Raul, Qureshi, Muhammad, Abdalkader, Mohamad, Martins, Sheila Ouriques, Yamagami, Hiroshi, Qiu, Zhongming, Mansour, Ossama Yassin, Sathya, Anvitha, Czlonkowska, Anna, Tsivgoulis, Georgios, Aguiar de Sousa, Diana, Demeestere, Jelle, Mikulik, Robert, Vanacker, Peter, Siegler, James, Kõrv, Janika, Biller, Jose, Liang, Conrad, Sangha, Navdeep, Zha, Alicia, Czap, Alexandra, Holmstedt, Christine Anne, Turan, Tanya, Ntaios, George, Malhotra, Konark, Tayal, Ashis, Loochtan, Aaron, Ranta, Annamarei, Mistry, Eva, Alexandrov, Anne, Huang, David, Yaghi, Shadi, Raz, Eytan, Sheth, Sunil, Mohammaden, Mahmoud, Frankel, Michael, Bila Lamou, Eric Guemekane, Aref, Hany, Elbassiouny, Ahmed, Hassan, Farouk, Menecie, Tarek, Mustafa, Wessam, Shokri, Hossam, Roushdy, Tamer, Sarfo, Fred, Alabi, Tolulope Oyetunde, Arabambi, Babawale, Nwazor, Ernest, Sunmonu, Taofiki Ajao, Wahab, Kolawole, Yaria, Joseph, Mohammed, Haytham Hussein, Adebayo, Philip, Riahi, Anis, Sassi, Samia Ben, Gwaunza, Lenon, Ngwende, 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Nguyen, Trung Quoc, Gattringer, Thomas, Enzinger, Christian, Killer-Oberpfalzer, Monika, Bellante, Flavio, de Blauwe, Sofie, Vanhooren, Geert, de Raedt, Sylvie, Dusart, Anne, Lemmens, Robin, Ligot, Noemie, Pierre Rutgers, Matthieu, Yperzeele, Laetitia, Alexiev, Filip, Sakelarova, Teodora, Bedeković, Marina Roje, Budincevic, Hrvoje, Cindric, Igor, Hucika, Zlatko, Ozretic, David, Saric, Majda Seferovic, Pfeifer, František, Karpowic, Igor, Cernik, David, Sramek, Martin, Skoda, Miroslav, Hlavacova, Helena, Klecka, Lukas, Koutny, Martin, Vaclavik, Daniel, Skoda, Ondrej, Fiksa, Jan, Hanelova, Katerina, Nevsimalova, Miroslava, Rezek, Robert, Prochazka, Petr, Krejstova, Gabriela, Neumann, Jiri, Vachova, Marta, Brzezanski, Henryk, Hlinovsky, David, Tenora, Dusan, Jura, Rene, Jurák, Lubomír, Novak, Jan, Novak, Ales, Topinka, Zdenek, Fibrich, Petr, Sobolova, Helena, Volny, Ondrej, Krarup Christensen, Hanne, Drenck, Nicolas, Klingenberg Iversen, Helle, Simonsen, Claus, Truelsen, Thomas Clement, 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Luchowski, Piotr, Sienkiewicz-Jarosz, Halina, Sobolewski, Piotr, Fryze, Waldemar, Wisniewska, Anna, Wiszniewska, Malgorzata, Ferreira, Patricia, Ferreira, Paulo, Fonseca, Luisa, Marto, João Pedro, Pinho E Melo, Teresa, Nunes, Ana Paiva, Rodrigues, Miguel, Tedim Cruz, Vítor, Falup-Pecurariu, Cristian, Krastev, Georgi, Mako, Miroslav, de Leciñana, María Alonso, Arenillas, Juan, Ayo-Martin, Oscar, Cruz Culebras, Antonio, Tejedor, Exuperio Diez, Montaner, Joan, Pérez-Sánchez, Soledad, Tola Arribas, Miguel Angel, Rodriguez Vasquez, Alejandro, Mayza, Michael, Bernava, Gianmarco, Brehm, Alex, Machi, Paolo, Fischer, Urs, Gralla, Jan, Michel, Patrik, Psychogios, Marios-Nikos, Strambo, Davide, Banerjee, Soma, Krishnan, Kailash, Kwan, Joseph, Butt, Asif, Catanese, Luciana, Demchuk, Andrew, Field, Thalia, Haynes, Jennifer, Hill, Michael, Khosravani, Houman, Mackey, Ariane, Pikula, Aleksandra, Saposnik, Gustavo, Scott, Courtney Anne, Shoamanesh, Ashkan, Shuaib, Ashfaq, Yip, Samuel, Barboza, Miguel, Barrientos, Jose Domingo, Portillo Rivera, Ligia Ibeth, Gongora-Rivera, Fernando, Novarro-Escudero, Nelson, Blanco, Anmylene, Abraham, Michael, Alsbrook, Diana, Altschul, Dorothea, Alvarado-Ortiz, Anthony, Bach, Ivo, Badruddin, Aamir, Barazangi, Nobl, Brereton, Charmaine, Castonguay, Alicia, Chaturvedi, Seemant, Chaudry, Saqib, Choe, Hana, Choi, Jae, Dharmadhikari, Sushrut, Desai, Kinjal, Devlin, Thomas, Doss, Vinodh, Edgell, Randall, Etherton, Mark, Farooqui, Mudassir, Frei, Don, Gandhi, Dheeraj, Grigoryan, Mikayel, Gupta, Rishi, Hassan, Ameer, Helenius, Johanna, Kaliaev, Artem, Kaushal, Ritesh, Khandelwal, Priyank, Khawaja, Ayaz, Khoury, Naim, Kim, Benny, Kleindorfer, Dawn, Koyfman, Feliks, Lee, Vivien, Leung, Lester, Linares, Guillermo, Linfante, Italo, Lutsep, Helmi, Macdougall, Lisa, Male, Shailesh, Malik, Amer, Masoud, Hesham, Mcdermott, Molly, Mehta, Brijesh, Min, Jiangyong, Mittal, Manoj, Morris, Jane, Multani, Sumeet, Nahab, Fadi, Nalleballe, Krishna, Nguyen, Claude, Novakovic-White, Roberta, Ortega-Gutierrez, Santiago, Rahangdale, Rahul, Ramakrishnan, Pankajavalli, Romero, Jose Rafael, Rost, Natalia, Rothstein, Aaron, Ruland, Sean, Shah, Ruchir, Sharma, Malveeka, Silver, Brian, Simmons, Marc, Singh, Abhishek, Starosciak, Amy, Strasser, Sheryl, Szeder, Viktor, Teleb, Mohamed, Tsai, Jenny, Voetsch, Barbara, Balaguera, Oscar, Pujol Lereis, Virginia, Luraschi, Adriana, Almeida, Marcele Schettini, Cardoso, Fabricio Buchdid, Conforto, Adriana, de Deus Silva, Leonardo, Varrone Giacomini, Luidia, Oliveira Lima, Fabricio, Longo, Alexandre, Magalhães, Pedro, Martins, Rodrigo Targa, Mont'Alverne, Francisco, Mora Cuervo, Daissy Liliana, Costa Rebello, Leticia, Valler, Lenise, Zetola, Viviane Flumignan, Lavados, Pablo, Navia, Victor, Olavarría, Verónica, Almeida Toro, Juan Manuel, Amaya, Pablo Felipe Ricardo, Bayona, Hernan, Corredor, Angel, Rivera Ordonez, Carlos Eduardo, Mantilla Barbosa, Diana Katherine, Lara, Osvaldo, Patiño, Mauricio, Diaz Escobar, Luis 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© 2021 American Academy of Neurology, Objective: To measure the global impact of COVID-19 pandemic on volumes of IV thrombolysis (IVT), IVT transfers, and stroke hospitalizations over 4 months at the height of the pandemic (March 1 to June 30, 2020) compared with 2 control 4-month periods. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective study across 6 continents, 70 countries, and 457 stroke centers. Diagnoses were identified by their ICD-10 codes or classifications in stroke databases. Results: There were 91,373 stroke admissions in the 4 months immediately before compared to 80,894 admissions during the pandemic months, representing an 11.5% (95% confidence interval [CI] -11.7 to -11.3, p < 0.0001) decline. There were 13,334 IVT therapies in the 4 months preceding compared to 11,570 procedures during the pandemic, representing a 13.2% (95% CI -13.8 to -12.7, p < 0.0001) drop. Interfacility IVT transfers decreased from 1,337 to 1,178, or an 11.9% decrease (95% CI -13.7 to -10.3, p = 0.001). Recovery of stroke hospitalization volume (9.5%, 95% CI 9.2-9.8, p < 0.0001) was noted over the 2 later (May, June) vs the 2 earlier (March, April) pandemic months. There was a 1.48% stroke rate across 119,967 COVID-19 hospitalizations. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was noted in 3.3% (1,722/52,026) of all stroke admissions. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a global decline in the volume of stroke hospitalizations, IVT, and interfacility IVT transfers. Primary stroke centers and centers with higher COVID-19 inpatient volumes experienced steeper declines. Recovery of stroke hospitalization was noted in the later pandemic months.
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