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. 2021 Apr-Jun;104(2):368504211013228.
doi: 10.1177/00368504211013228.

COVID infection displaces serious cardiovascular disease from the resuscitation room

Oriol Yuguero  1 , Marianela Guzmán  1 , Carmel Vidal  1 , César Pardos  1 , Silvia Gros  1 , Maria Viladrosa  1
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COVID infection displaces serious cardiovascular disease from the resuscitation room

Oriol Yuguero et al. Sci Prog. 2021 Apr-Jun.

Abstract

The SARS-COV2 Pandemic has required the emergency departments to focus their attention and care to COVID-19-diagnosed patients over patients with other pathologies. Descriptive study of patients attended in the resuscitation room between 1st of March and 31st May 2019 and compared to the same period in 2020. We include all the patients attended were included in the study and their clinical variables evaluated and their diagnosis at discharge. Six hundred and fifty-nine patients were attended in 2019 and 384 in 2020. There were no differences between age and gender. In 2019, 83.2% of the cases attended had a cardiac pathology, followed by neurological pathology and traffic accidents. This data is also significant since in the same period of 2020 cardiac pathology fell to 8.3%. The COVID pandemic has reduced patients attended at resuscitation room, and especially cardiovascular ones. These are preliminary results and more studies should be done to confirm or to study this trend.

Keywords: COVID; emergencies; epidemiology.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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