An Increase in Incidence of ED Presentations in the United Kingdom with Complete Heart Block- COVID-19 Effect?
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Debkumar Chowdhury
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Debkumar Chowdhury
Specialty Registrar, Emergency Medicine, UK
A B S T R A C T
There seems to an increase in the presentations to our Emergency
Department with patients with complete heart block. The important
question is whether this is an apparent increase in numbers or a true
increase in numbers of presentations remains to be seen. It has been well
recognised that across the Emergency Departments in the United
Kingdom, there has been a fall in the number of attendances. In some
estimates, this has been as low as a 30% reduction in the number of ED
attendances when compared with figures in the previous years.
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Article Type
Editorial
Publication history
Received: Mon 14, Dec 2020
Accepted: Tue 29, Dec 2020
Published: Thu 14, Jan 2021
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© 2023 Debkumar Chowdhury. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI:
10.31487/j.JICOA.2021.01.05