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Practice Guideline
. 2020 Sep;5(3):242-249.
doi: 10.1136/svn-2020-000409. Epub 2020 Jul 8.

Expert consensus on prevention and control of COVID-19 in the neurological intensive care unit (first edition)

Furong Wang  1 , Jingyi Liu  2   3 , Ping Zhang  1 , Wen Jiang  4 , Le Zhang  5 , Meng Zhang  6 , Junfang Teng  7 , Jinquan Wang  8 , Xiaoqi Xie  9 , Jie Cao  10 , Wei Li  6 , Yongming Wu  11 , Hao Zhou  12 , Yingying Su  13 , Suyue Pan  14 , Liping Liu  15   3
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Expert consensus on prevention and control of COVID-19 in the neurological intensive care unit (first edition)

Furong Wang et al. Stroke Vasc Neurol. 2020 Sep.

Abstract

During the COVID-19 epidemic, the treatment of critically ill patients has been increasingly difficult and challenging. During the epidemic, some patients with neurological diseases also have COVID-19, which could be misdiagnosed and cause silent transmission and nosocomial infection. Such risk is high in a neurological intensive care unit (NCU). Therefore, prevention and control of epidemic in critically ill patients is of utmost importance. The principle of NCU care should include comprehensive screening and risk assessment, weighing risk against benefits and reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission while treating patients as promptly as possible.

Keywords: infection.

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Flowchart of emergency admissions. ER, emergency room; NCU, neurological intensive care unit.
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