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cord-285360-svczr721	Ganesh, Aravind	Ignorance is not bliss: managing uncertainty in acute stroke treatment in the COVID-19 era	2020-10-31		.txt	text/plain	1608	68	34	Treatment delays may seem inevitable with competing priorities like donning/doffing PPE, greater attention to the patient's respiratory status with more frequent pre-emptive intubation, and a Fig. 1 During typical emergency medical scenarios like ischemic stroke, there are various factors that are immediately available ("known") at the time of decision-making for physicians, patients, and their caregivers/ proxies, whereas other factors are potentially knowable but lost to an "information bottleneck" and still others lie hidden behind a "knowledge barrier" (a). The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a constellation of systemic and workflow changes that have resulted in additional unique challenges in information flow for emergency medical decision-making (b). Nevertheless, by appreciating the underlying pitfalls in information flow, we can adopt a more proactive and nuanced approach to emergency decision-making and potentially mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on patient care (Fig. 1d) .	./cache/cord-285360-svczr721.txt	./txt/cord-285360-svczr721.txt