Abstract
Stay-at-home orders and additional fears of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a decrease in the presentation of patients with stroke symptoms in emergency departments across some regions in the U.S. but without a similar decline in mechanical thrombectomy (MT) (1). However, a significant decrease of MT cases was observed in other countries such as France (2). It is unknown if the same phenomenon was observed across the entire U.S. The purpose of this study was to review the volumes of code stroke activation, emergent large vessel occlusion (ELVO) activation, and MT cases in a Stroke Belt region during statewide stay-at-home measures to determine if the percentage of ELVO and MT cases to all code stroke activations were equally affected.
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