TY - JOUR
AR - JICOA-2021-1-105
TI - An Increase in Incidence of ED Presentations in the United Kingdom with Complete Heart Block- COVID-19 Effect?
AU - Debkumar, Chowdhury
JO - Journal of Integrative Cardiology Open Access
PY - 2021
DA - Thu 14, Jan 2021
SN - 2674-2489
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.31487/j.JICOA.2021.01.05
UR - https://www.sciencerepository.org/an-increase-in-incidence-of-ed-presentations-in-the_JICOA-2021-1-105 
KW -  Complete heart block, COVID-19, emergency department
AB - 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.