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Untreated Stroke As Collateral Damage Of Covid-19: "Time Is Brain" Versus "Stay At Home"., David Z. Rose, W. Scott Burgin, Swetha Renati Oct 2020

Untreated Stroke As Collateral Damage Of Covid-19: "Time Is Brain" Versus "Stay At Home"., David Z. Rose, W. Scott Burgin, Swetha Renati

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For decades, neurologists have been advocating that anyone with acute focal deficits report immediately to the closest hospital's emergency room. Major advancements in the hyperacute diagnosis and treatment of stroke have justified our call-to-action slogan of "Time is Brain"-faster therapy leads to superior outcomes. However, this mantra has been recently usurped by the catchphrase "Stay at Home" during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Fewer patients are presenting to hospitals with acute stroke; our census is down. Presumably the etiology of this phenomenon is either strict "social distancing" that some people may misperceive to exclude even emergent situations, or fears …


La Anosmia Como Síntoma Temprano En Pacientes Con Covid-19, Alex Stiven Huamán Navarro, Juliana Aparcana Machado Sep 2020

La Anosmia Como Síntoma Temprano En Pacientes Con Covid-19, Alex Stiven Huamán Navarro, Juliana Aparcana Machado

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana

Desde el conocimiento de la aparición de un brote a mediados del mes de diciembre del 2019 por elnuevo coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) en la ciudad de Wuhan, China, se vienen desarrollando estudiosepidemiológicos y clínicos para definir bien la sintomatología de la enfermedad por el coronavirus 2019(COVID-19), sin embargo, dentro de algunos reportes nada despreciables, se viene informando que unode los síntomas iniciales de la enfermedad también podrían ser las alteraciones del olfato y del gusto (30y 60% en las series coreana y alemana, respectivamente).


Untreated Stroke As Collateral Damage Of Covid-19: “Time Is Brain” Versus “Stay At Home, David Z. Rose, W. Scott Burgin, Swetha Renati Jan 2020

Untreated Stroke As Collateral Damage Of Covid-19: “Time Is Brain” Versus “Stay At Home, David Z. Rose, W. Scott Burgin, Swetha Renati

Neurology Faculty Publications

For decades, neurologists have been advocating that anyone with acute focal deficits report immediately to the closest hospital’s emergency room. Major advancements in the hyperacute diagnosis and treatment of stroke have justified our call-to-action slogan of “Time is Brain”—faster therapy leads to superior outcomes. However, this mantra has been recently usurped by the catchphrase “Stay at Home” during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Fewer patients are presenting to hospitals with acute stroke; our census is down. Presumably the etiology of this phenomenon is either strict “social distancing” that some people may misperceive to exclude even emergent situations, or fears …