Exploring the Collateral Damage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stroke Care: A Statewide Analysis

Stroke. 2021 May;52(5):1822-1825. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.034150. Epub 2021 Mar 11.

Clotilde Balucani^{1

2}, J Ricardo Carhuapoma^{1

2

3}, Joseph K Canner⁴, Roland Faigle¹, Brenda Johnson¹, Anna Aycock⁵, Michael S Phipps⁶, Chad Schrier⁶, Karen Yarbrough⁶, Linda Toral⁷, Susan Groman⁸, Erin Lawrence¹, Eric Aldrich^{1

8}, Adrian Goldszmidt⁷, Elizabeth Marsh¹, Victor C Urrutia¹

¹ Department of Neurology (C.B., J.R.C., R.F., B.J., E.L., E.A., E.M., V.C.U.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
² Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (C.B., J.R.C.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
³ Department of Neurosurgery Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD (J.R.C.).
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Surgery Center for Outcomes Research, MD (J.K.C.).
⁵ Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System, Baltimore (A.A.).
⁶ Department of Neurology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore (M.S.P., C.S., K.Y.).
⁷ Department of Neurology, LifeBridge Health's Berman Brain and Spine Institute, Baltimore, MD (L.T., A.G.).
⁸ Johns Hopkins Howard County General Hospital, Columbia, MD (S.G., E.A.).

Abstract

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Keywords: coronavirus; hospitals; pandemics; subarachnoid hemorrhage; thrombectomy.