• María de la P Chang, Agustina Davancens, María C Rourich, Juan M Vincenti, Priscila Valencia, María F Guarriello, César M Costilla, and Conrado J Estol.
• Unidad de ACV, Sanatorio Güemes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: pacitachang@gmail.com.
• Medicina (B Aires). 2021 Jan 1; 81 (3): 415-420.

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic resulted in limited access of post-stroke patients to their usual medical follow-up and rehabilitation. To continue these activities, we adopted a technology that is free and has universal access. We remotely followed 32 patients after discharge from the stroke unit during the mandatory lock-down. This allowed to continue with medical controls, physical therapy and speech pathology treatments. All patients fully complied with medical treatment and self-monitoring of vascular risk factors. Early discontinuation of rehabilitation therapies was identified and immediately compensated with tele-rehabilitation. All expressed their willingness to continue with this treatment modality. This strategy was successful to effectively continue medical follow-up and rehabilitation supervision with the collaboration of families, is an accessible and low-cost technology that could be replicated and used in health institutions that treat neurovascular diseases.

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