To keep patients and health-care providers safe from COVID-19, while providing urgent treatment to stroke patients, extra precautions must be taken, according to new guidelines published in the journal Stroke.
To keep patients and health-care providers safe from COVID-19, while providing urgent treatment to stroke patients, extra precautions must be taken, according to new guidelines published in the journal Stroke.
The guidelines were established by the Society of Vascular & Interventional Neurology (SVIN).
UCLA professor of neurology Dr. David Liebeskind, who is president of SVIN and director of the UCLA Stroke Center, expressed concern that fear of COVID-19 may make patients hesitate to seek treatment in the event of a possible stroke.
"People are passing away or having severe strokes out of the hospital," he said. "There are a lot of people who are not coming in."
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