Neurological emergency at the COVID-19 pandemic: report from a referral hospital in Eastern Piedmont, Italy.

Claudia VarrasiThomas FleetwoodFabiola De MarchiDomizia VecchioEleonora VirgilioLuigi Mario CastelloGian Carlo AvanziPier Paolo SainaghiLetizia MazziniRoberto Cantello

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2022)

While the percentage of admissions following an ED access grew dramatically, those to the Neurology Unit showed overall only a slight non-significant decrease. This finding implicitly reflects the serious and urgent nature of many neurological diseases, compelling people to access EDs at any time.

Keyphrases

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