Non-COVID-19 emergencies: where have all the patients gone?

Tom Boeken; Alice Le Berre; Anne Mebazaa; Isabelle Boulay-Coletta; Jérôme Hodel; Marc Zins

doi:10.1007/s00330-020-06961-z

Non-COVID-19 emergencies: where have all the patients gone?

Eur Radiol. 2020 Sep;30(9):5220-5221. doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-06961-z. Epub 2020 May 26.

Authors

Tom Boeken¹, Alice Le Berre¹, Anne Mebazaa¹, Isabelle Boulay-Coletta¹, Jérôme Hodel¹, Marc Zins²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014, Paris, France.
² Department of Radiology, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph, 185 rue Raymond Losserand, 75014, Paris, France. mzins@hpsj.fr.

Abstract

• Early in the pandemic, numbers of patients undergoing non-COVID-19 emergent CTs dropped sharply but diagnostic yield did not increase, suggesting potentially undiagnosed emergencies in patients not seen in healthcare institutions.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / diagnostic imaging
Emergencies*
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnostic imaging
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed