Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A decrease in Emergency Department (ED) visits for cardiac conditions has recently been reported from the US and Western Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data are still scant, and the correlation between cardiac symptoms and confirmed diagnoses are not available. There are no reports on changes in ED volumes at a national level, or from countries in the Asia-Middle Eastern region. We report data from national referral centers for tertiary care and cardiac care centers in Qatar, which see > 80% of cardiac emergencies in the country.

Results

We analyzed 102,033 ED visits in the COVID-19-era (March-April 2020 and 2019) and determined the proportion presenting for cardiac symptoms and their confirmed diagnoses. We observed a 16-37% decline in ED volumes overal

SUBMITTER: Butt AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672168 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature