id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-029466-9sy6icrm	Ramadan, Ahmad Riad	Tales of a department: how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital, Department of Neurology—part I: the surge	2020-07-12		.txt	text/plain	4345	205	49	In the first 2 weeks, the meetings were focused on ensuring the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE), the shutting down of all neurology outpatient and most inpatient activities, establishment of virtual care activity and seeking volunteers for redeployment openings listed by Incident Command on the daily leadership calls. In order to expand the number of ICU beds, the larger unit, consisting of 18 beds, became an extension of the medical ICU (MICU) for patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 and was staffed by internal medicine (IM) physicians and residents. Neurological checks and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale assessments were performed using video devices to limit exposure to HCPs. Consensus was reached between the stroke team, neurointerventional team and radiology on an amended policy to manage patients receiving thrombectomy during the pandemic. Several neurology residents were redeployed to provide care for patients admitted to the COVID-19 unit under the supervision of an IM staff.	./cache/cord-029466-9sy6icrm.txt	./txt/cord-029466-9sy6icrm.txt