Global Impact of COVID-19 on Stroke Care and Intravenous Thrombolysis

SVIN COVID-19 Global Stroke Registry

doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000011885

Global Impact of COVID-19 on Stroke Care and Intravenous Thrombolysis

SVIN COVID-19 Global Stroke Registry

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OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to measure the global impact of the pandemic on the volumes for intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), IVT transfers, and stroke hospitalizations over 4 months at the height of the pandemic (March 1 to June 30, 2020) compared with two control 4-month periods.

METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective study across 6 continents, 70 countries, and 457 stroke centers. Diagnoses were identified by their ICD-10 codes and/or classifications in stroke databases.

RESULTS: There were 91,373 stroke admissions in the 4 months immediately before compared to 80,894 admissions during the pandemic months, representing an 11.5% (95%CI, -11.7 to - 11.3, p

CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a global decline in the volume of stroke hospitalizations, IVT, and interfacility IVT transfers. Primary stroke centers and centers with higher COVID19 inpatient volumes experienced steeper declines. Recovery of stroke hospitalization was noted in the later pandemic months.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e2824 - e2838
Journal	Neurology
Volume	96
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000011885
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021

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doi = "10.1212/WNL.0000000000011885",

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AU - Nogueira, Raul G

AU - Qureshi, Muhammed M

AU - Abdalkader, Mohamad

AU - Martins, Sheila Ouriques

AU - Yamagami, Hiroshi

AU - Qiu, Zhongming

AU - Mansour, Ossama Yassin

AU - Sathya, Anvitha

AU - Czlonkowska, Anna

AU - Tsivgoulis, Georgios

AU - Aguiar de Sousa, Diana

AU - Demeestere, Jelle

AU - Mikulik, Robert

AU - Vanacker, Peter

AU - Siegler, James E

AU - Kõrv, Janika

AU - Biller, Jose

AU - Liang, Conrad W

AU - Sangha, Navdeep S

AU - Zha, Alicia M

AU - Czap, Alexandra L

AU - Holmstedt, Christine Anne

AU - Turan, Tanya N

AU - Ntaios, George

AU - Malhotra, Konark

AU - Tayal, Ashis

AU - Loochtan, Aaron

AU - Ranta, Annamarei

AU - Mistry, Eva A

AU - Alexandrov, Anne W

AU - Huang, David Y

AU - Yaghi, Shadi

AU - Raz, Eytan

AU - Sheth, Sunil A

AU - Mohammaden, Mahmoud H

AU - Frankel, Michael

AU - Bila Lamou, Eric Guemekane

AU - Aref, Hany M

AU - Elbassiouny, Ahmed

AU - Hassan, Farouk

AU - Menecie, Tarek

AU - Mustafa, Wessam

AU - Shokri, Hossam M

AU - Roushdy, Tamer

AU - Sarfo, Fred S

AU - Alabi, Tolulope Oyetunde

AU - Arabambi, Babawale

AU - Nwazor, Ernest O

AU - Sunmonu, Taofiki Ajao

AU - Wahab, Kolawole

AU - Yaria, Joseph

AU - Mohammed, Haytham Hussein

AU - Adebayo, Philip B

AU - Riahi, Anis D

AU - Ben Sassi, Samia

AU - Gwaunza, Lenon

AU - Ngwende, Gift Wilson

AU - Sahakyan, David

AU - Rahman, Aminur

AU - Ai, Zhibing

AU - Bai, Fanghui

AU - Duan, Zhenhui

AU - Hao, Yonggang

AU - Huang, Wenguo

AU - Li, Guangwen

AU - Li, Wei

AU - Liu, Ganzhe

AU - Luo, Jun

AU - Shang, Xianjin

AU - Sui, Yi

AU - Tian, Ling

AU - Wen, Hongbin

AU - Wu, Bo

AU - Yan, Yuying

AU - Yuan, Zhengzhou

AU - Zhang, Hao

AU - Zhang, Jun

AU - Zhao, Wenlong

AU - Zi, Wenjie

AU - Leung, Thomas W

AU - Chugh, Chandril

AU - Huded, Vikram

AU - Menon, Bindu

AU - Sylaja, P N

AU - Usman, Fritz Sumantri

AU - Farhoudi, Mehdi

AU - Hokmabadi, Elyar Sadeghi

AU - Horev, Anat

AU - Reznik, Anna

AU - Hoffmann, Rotem Sivan

AU - Ohara, Nobuyuki

AU - Sakai, Nobuyuki

AU - Watanabe, Daisuke

AU - Yamamoto, Ryoo

AU - Doijiri, Ryosuke

AU - Tokuda, Naoki

AU - Yamada, Takehiro

AU - Terasaki, Tadashi

AU - Yazawa, Yukako

AU - Uwatoko, Takeshi

AU - Dembo, Tomohisa

AU - Shimizu, Hisao

AU - Sugiura, Yuri

AU - Miyashita, Fumio

AU - Fukuda, Hiroki

AU - Miyake, Kosuke

AU - Shimbo, Junsuke

AU - Sugimura, Yusuke

AU - Yagita, Yoshiki

AU - Takenobu, Yohei

AU - Matsumaru, Yuji

AU - Yamada, Satoshi

AU - Kono, Ryuhei

AU - Kanamaru, Takuya

AU - Yamazaki, Hidekazu

AU - Sakaguchi, Manabu

AU - Todo, Kenichi

AU - Yamamoto, Nobuaki

AU - Sonoda, Kazutaka

AU - Yoshida, Tomoko

AU - Hashimoto, Hiroyuki

AU - Nakahara, Ichiro

AU - Kondybayeva, Aida

AU - Faizullina, Kamila

AU - Kamenova, Saltanat

AU - Zhanuzakov, Murat

AU - Baek, Jang-Hyun

AU - Hwang, Yangha

AU - Lee, Jin Soo

AU - Lee, Si Baek

AU - Moon, Jusun

AU - Park, Hyungjong

AU - Seo, Jung Hwa

AU - Seo, Kwon-Duk

AU - Sohn, Sung Il

AU - Young, Chang Jun

AU - Ahdab, Rechdi

AU - Wan Zaidi, Wan Asyraf

AU - Aziz, Zariah Abdul

AU - Basri, Hamidon Bin

AU - Chung, Law Wan

AU - Ibrahim, Aznita Binti

AU - Ibrahim, Khairul Azmi

AU - Looi, Irene

AU - Tan, Wee Yong

AU - Yahya, Nafisah Wan

AU - Groppa, Stanislav

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AU - Al Hashmi, Amal M

AU - Imam, Yahia Zakaria

AU - Akhtar, Naveed

AU - Pineda-Franks, Maria Carissa

AU - Co, Christian Oliver

AU - Kandyba, Dmitriy

AU - Alhazzani, Adel

AU - Al-Jehani, Hosam

AU - Tham, Carol Huilian

AU - Mamauag, Marlie Jane

AU - Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy

AU - Chen, Chih-Hao

AU - Tang, Sung-Chun

AU - Churojana, Anchalee

AU - Akil, Esref

AU - Aykaç, Ozlem

AU - Ozdemir, Atilla Ozcan

AU - Giray, Semih

AU - Hussain, Syed Irteza

AU - John, Seby

AU - Le Vu, Huynh

AU - Tran, Anh Duc

AU - Nguyen, Huy Hoang

AU - Pham, Thong Nhu

AU - Nguyen, Thang Huy

AU - Nguyen, Trung Quoc

AU - Gattringer, Thomas

AU - Enzinger, Christian

AU - Killer-Oberpfalzer, Monika

AU - Bellante, Flavio

AU - De Blauwe, Sofie

AU - Vanhooren, Geert

AU - De Raedt, Sylvie

AU - Dusart, Anne

AU - Lemmens, Robin

AU - Ligot, Noemie

AU - Rutgers, Matthieu Pierre

AU - Yperzeele, Laetitia

AU - Alexiev, Filip

AU - Sakelarova, Teodora

AU - Bedeković, Marina Roje

AU - Budincevic, Hrvoje

AU - Cindrić, Igor

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AU - Ozretic, David

AU - Saric, Majda Seferovic

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AU - Karpowic, Igor

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AU - Sramek, Martin

AU - Skoda, Miroslav

AU - Hlavacova, Helena

AU - Klecka, Lukas

AU - Koutny, Martin

AU - Vaclavik, Daniel

AU - Skoda, Ondrej

AU - Fiksa, Jan

AU - Hanelova, Katerina

AU - Nevsimalova, Miroslava

AU - Rezek, Robert

AU - Prochazka, Petr

AU - Krejstova, Gabriela

AU - Neumann, Jiri

AU - Vachova, Marta

AU - Brzezanski, Henryk

AU - Hlinovsky, David

AU - Tenora, Dusan

AU - Jura, Rene

AU - Jurák, Lubomír

AU - Novak, Jan

AU - Novak, Ales

AU - Topinka, Zdenek

AU - Fibrich, Petr

AU - Sobolova, Helena

AU - Volny, Ondrej

AU - Christensen, Hanne Krarup

AU - Drenck, Nicolas

AU - Iversen, Helle Klingenberg

AU - Simonsen, Claus Z

AU - Truelsen, Thomas Clement

AU - Wienecke, Troels

AU - Vibo, Riina

AU - Gross-Paju, Katrin

AU - Toomsoo, Toomas

AU - Antsov, Katrin

AU - Caparros, Francois

AU - Cordonnier, Charlotte

AU - Dan, Maria

AU - Faucheux, Jean-Marc

AU - Mechtouff, Laura

AU - Eker, Omer

AU - Lesaine, Emilie

AU - Ondze, Basile

AU - Peres, Roxane

AU - Hill, Michael D

AU - Morris, Jane G

AU - Romero, Jose Rafael

AU - Singh, Abhishek

AU - Campbell, Bruce

AU - Hankey, Graeme J

AU - Nguyen, Thanh N

PY - 2021/6

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N2 - OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to measure the global impact of the pandemic on the volumes for intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), IVT transfers, and stroke hospitalizations over 4 months at the height of the pandemic (March 1 to June 30, 2020) compared with two control 4-month periods.METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective study across 6 continents, 70 countries, and 457 stroke centers. Diagnoses were identified by their ICD-10 codes and/or classifications in stroke databases.RESULTS: There were 91,373 stroke admissions in the 4 months immediately before compared to 80,894 admissions during the pandemic months, representing an 11.5% (95%CI, -11.7 to - 11.3, pCONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a global decline in the volume of stroke hospitalizations, IVT, and interfacility IVT transfers. Primary stroke centers and centers with higher COVID19 inpatient volumes experienced steeper declines. Recovery of stroke hospitalization was noted in the later pandemic months.

AB - OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were to measure the global impact of the pandemic on the volumes for intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), IVT transfers, and stroke hospitalizations over 4 months at the height of the pandemic (March 1 to June 30, 2020) compared with two control 4-month periods.METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective study across 6 continents, 70 countries, and 457 stroke centers. Diagnoses were identified by their ICD-10 codes and/or classifications in stroke databases.RESULTS: There were 91,373 stroke admissions in the 4 months immediately before compared to 80,894 admissions during the pandemic months, representing an 11.5% (95%CI, -11.7 to - 11.3, pCONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a global decline in the volume of stroke hospitalizations, IVT, and interfacility IVT transfers. Primary stroke centers and centers with higher COVID19 inpatient volumes experienced steeper declines. Recovery of stroke hospitalization was noted in the later pandemic months.

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