@article{ref1,
title="Traumatic brain injury during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic",
journal="Neurotrauma reports",
year="2020",
author="Santing, Juliette A.L. and van den Brand, Crispijn L. and Jellema, Korné",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="5-7",
abstract="Emergency departments (EDs) are eerily quiet for illnesses apart from COVID-19. In this short communication, we assessed the effect of COVID-19 on ED attendance rates for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Data were collected from all consecutive patients with TBI attending our hospital (Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, The Netherlands) during the first 3 weeks of the Dutch lockdown (from March 18 to April 6) and for the same period last year. We observed a 36% decrease in ED attendance for TBI since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (91 vs. 143). Patients who presented during the lockdown were significantly older compared with the patients who visited the ED in the previous year (72 vs. 57, p = 0.01). No other significant differences were found.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2689-288X",
doi="10.1089/neur.2020.0001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/neur.2020.0001"
}