Maintaining stroke care in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic:Results from an international survey of stroke professionals and practicerecommendations from the European Stroke Organisation

摘要

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been placing anoverwhelming burden on health systems, thus threatening their ability tooperate effectively for acute conditions in which treatments are highly timesensitive, such as cerebrovascular disorders and myocardial infarction. Aspart of an effort to reduce the consequences of this outbreak on healthservice delivery to stroke patients, the European Stroke Organisation hasundertaken a survey aimed at collecting information on the provision ofstroke care during the pandemic.