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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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