Patient visits for heart attack and stroke have dropped significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to patient visits during the same period in 2019, indicating patients may be avoiding care for potentially life-threatening conditions, a new study shows.
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Across all service lines, COVID-19 pushed the number of unique patients who sought hospital care down by an average of 54.5 percent, according to a year-over-year analysis from Strata Decision Technology.
The U.S. has confirmed 1,229,089 COVID-19 cases and 73,435 deaths as of 9:45 a.m. CDT May 7. Globally, there have been 3,778,179 reported cases and 264,602 deaths, while 1,254,744 have recovered.
These 30 states have allowed or announced plans to allow healthcare providers to resume elective surgeries.
A community hospital in Glendale, Calif., is putting out an urgent call to its local community this week: Our emergency room is open and safe; please come.
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Some physicians believe that behind the COVID-19 pandemic is a silent sub-epidemic of people who need care but are too scared to visit emergency rooms, according to The Washington Post.
Some severely ill COVID-19 patients are developing blood clots in their lungs, physicians have found, but they do not have a treatment for it, according to STAT News.
A new study shows that patients who are suffering from serious illnesses would be willing to shorten their lifespan rather than die in an intensive care unit, according to MedPage Today.
Hospitals across the country are being overwhelmed with COVID-19, and they are missing the acutely ill patients they usually cater to, such as heart attack and stroke patients, a physician wrote in an opinion article for The New York Times.
At the heart of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., NYU Langone Health is now experiencing record numbers of virtual visits between its patients and providers.