Table 1 Total Emergency Department visits for cardiac symptoms (chest pain likely cardiac, palpitations, shortness of breath and syncope/near syncope) and a breakdown of confirmed cardiac diagnoses among those with cardiac symptoms in months after and before COVID-19 cases
From: Impact of COVID-19 upon changes in emergency room visits with chest pain of possible cardiac origin
2019–03 | 2019–04 | 2020–03 | 2020–04 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total ED visits | 29,908 | 28,950 | 25,049 | 18,126 | ||||
% change from previous year | – | – | − 16.2% | − 37.4% |
N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total ED visits for cardiac symptoms | 3185 | 10.6 | 2941 | 10.2 | 2389 | 9.5 | 1472 | 8.1 |
% change from previous year | – | – | – | – | − 25.0% | − 49.9% | ||
Cardiac diagnoses among those with cardiac symptoms | 445 | 14.0 | 350 | 11.9 | 337 | 14.1 | 201 | 13.7 |
% change from previous year | – | – | – | – | − 24.3% | − 42.6% | ||
Acute coronary syndrome | 191 | 6.0 | 167 | 5.7 | 170 | 7.1 | 113 | 7.7 |
Angina or coronary artery disease without acute coronary syndrome | 93 | 2.9 | 74 | 2.5 | 32 | 1.3 | 7 | 0.5 |
Arrythmia | 78 | 2.4 | 42 | 1.4 | 47 | 2.0 | 26 | 1.8 |
Cardiac arrest | 20 | 0.6 | 14 | 0.5 | 20 | 0.8 | 19 | 1.3 |
Congestive heart failure | 62 | 1.9 | 47 | 1.6 | 63 | 2.6 | 35 | 2.4 |
Valvular disease | 1 | 0.0 | 6 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 |