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Deep Brain Stimulation Battery Exhaustion during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Crisis within a Crisis
- Source :
- Journal of Movement Disorders, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 218-222 (2020), Journal of Movement Disorders
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Korean Movement Disorders Society, 2020.
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Abstract
- Objective: The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and public health measures to control it have resulted in unique challenges in the management of patients with deep brain stimulation (DBS). We report our experience with the management of acute worsening of symptoms due to battery exhaustion in 3 patients with DBS. Methods: Patients with DBS for movement disorders who visited the emergency room due to battery exhaustion during the nationwide lockdown from April to May 2020 were included. Results: Two patients with subthalamic nucleus-DBS for Parkinson's disease (PD) and one with globus pallidus interna-DBS for generalized dystonia presented with acute worsening of symptoms due to battery exhaustion. Urgent battery replacement was performed in both patients with PD. The patient with generalized dystonia was managed with medication adjustment as he chose to defer battery replacement. Conclusion: DBS battery replacement can be an emergency. Decisions regarding DBS battery replacement should be individualized during this COVID-19 pandemic.
- Subjects :
- Battery (electricity)
medicine.medical_specialty
Deep brain stimulation
Movement disorders
Neurology
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
medicine.medical_treatment
battery exhaustion
Disease
Brief Communication
lcsh:RC346-429
lcsh:RC321-571
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
parkinson disease
0502 economics and business
Pandemic
medicine
lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system
Dystonia
business.industry
05 social sciences
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
deep brain stimulation
surgical procedures, operative
nervous system
covid-19
Emergency medicine
Neurology (clinical)
dystonia
medicine.symptom
business
therapeutics
050203 business & management
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20934939
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Movement Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f408e3cfd9967a58dc0c336cad92fc3