Related Articles Stroke Care in the First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College during the COVID 19 Outbreak Eur Neurol 2020 Dec 18 1 6 Authors Zhang LL Guo YJ Lin YP Hu RZ Yu JP Yang J Wang X Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 COVID 19 has become a pandemic disease globally The First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College has adopted telestroke to make stroke care accessible in remote areas During the period January 2020 to March 2020 there was no COVID 19 case reported in our stroke center A significant reduction of stroke admission was observed between the ischemic stroke group 235 vs 588 cases and the intracerebral hemorrhage group 136 vs 150 cases when compared with the same period last year p 0 001 The mean door to needle time DNT and door to puncture time DPT was 62 and 124 min respectively Compared to the same period last year a significant change was observed in DNT 62 12 vs 47 8 min p 0 019 but not in DPT 124 58 vs 135 23 min p 0 682 A total of 46 telestroke consultations were received from network hospitals Telestroke management in the central hospital was performed on 17 patients Of them 3 17 6 patients had brain hernia and died in hospital and 8 47 1 patients were able to ambulation at discharge and had a modified Rankin Scale of 0 2 at 3 months The COVID 19 pandemic impacted stroke care significantly in our hospital including prehospital and in hospital settings resulting in a significant drop in acute ischemic stroke admissions and a delay in DNT The construction of a telestroke network enabled us to extend health care resources and make stroke care accessible in remote areas Stroke education and public awareness should be reinforced during the COVID 19 pandemic PMID 33341815 PubMed as supplied by publisher