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. 2021 Oct;27(1_suppl):19-23.
doi: 10.1177/15910199211035302. Epub 2021 Oct 20.

Patient prioritization and management during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mohamed Aggour  1 , Cuong Tran Chi  2 , Jens Fiehler  3
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Patient prioritization and management during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mohamed Aggour et al. Interv Neuroradiol. 2021 Oct.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic affected the healthcare system in a major way generally. Healthcare re-organization of resources and manpower, establishing management protocols and specific patients' pathways are all evolving with the continuously changing situation. Neuro-vascular management and its re-organization are part of these global measures to cope with this pandemic in a way to establish less risky patients' pathways, help in patients' triage, protecting the staff by introducing training and applying safety measures and to manage neuro-vascular emergencies and elective activity. We here describe the situation of the pandemic affecting neuro-vascular interventions and propose our recommendations for patients' triage, resources management and organization, remote solutions and preparations for any future waves.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; patient prioritization.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of conflicting interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.

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