Impacto do isolamento social na pandemia de COVID-19 sobre atendimentos de emergência e angioplastias para infarto do miocárdio em hospital cardiológico

João Falcão,Frederico Arnauld,Lúcia Belém,Breno Falcão,Francisco Sousa,Dieison Rabelo,Jair Pereira Neto,Sandra Falcão

doi:10.31160/jotci202028a20200009

Abstract

Background Social isolation and marketing campaign to avoid “unnecessary” use of healthcare system to fight against COVID-19 pandemic might impact on the decision to seek medical care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of social isolation during COVID-19 pandemic on trends in numbers of visits to emergency department, non-elective admissions, and percutaneous coronary intervention procedures for treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction, at a reference cardiology hospital. Methods Daily numbers of visits to emergency [...]

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Social isolation has been proposed as a major strategy to reduce coronavirus dissemination and to spare hospital resources during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.[1]
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of social isolation during COVID-19 pandemic on trends in number of visits to emergency department, non-elective hospital admissions, and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures for the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI), at a reference cardiology hospital
Data were collected from registries of a high-volume public cardiology hospital (2,372 PCI performed in the last year) in the city of Fortaleza (CE), Brazil, with population of 2.6 million

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Introduction

Social isolation has been proposed as a major strategy to reduce coronavirus dissemination and to spare hospital resources during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.[1]. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of social isolation during COVID-19 pandemic on trends in number of visits to emergency department, non-elective hospital admissions, and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures for the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI), at a reference cardiology hospital

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