TY - JOUR T1 - Expert consensus on prevention and control of COVID-19 in the neurological intensive care unit (first edition) JF - Stroke and Vascular Neurology JO - Stroke Vasc Neurol DO - 10.1136/svn-2020-000409 SP - svn-2020-000409 AU - Furong Wang AU - Jingyi Liu AU - Ping Zhang AU - Wen Jiang AU - Le Zhang AU - Meng Zhang AU - Junfang Teng AU - Jinquan Wang AU - Xiaoqi Xie AU - Jie Cao AU - Wei Li AU - Yongming Wu AU - Hao Zhou AU - Yingying Su AU - Suyue Pan AU - Liping Liu Y1 - 2020/07/08 UR - http://svn.bmj.com/content/early/2020/07/16/svn-2020-000409.abstract N2 - During the COVID-19 epidemic, the treatment of critically ill patients has been increasingly difficult and challenging. During the epidemic, some patients with neurological diseases also have COVID-19, which could be misdiagnosed and cause silent transmission and nosocomial infection. Such risk is high in a neurological intensive care unit (NCU). Therefore, prevention and control of epidemic in critically ill patients is of utmost importance. The principle of NCU care should include comprehensive screening and risk assessment, weighing risk against benefits and reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission while treating patients as promptly as possible. ER -