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The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically affected the operations of New York City hospitals during March and April of 2020. This article describes the transformation of a neurology division at a 450-bed tertiary care hospital in a multi-ethnic community in Brooklyn during this initial wave of COVID-19. In lieu of a mass redeployment of staff to internal medicine teams, we report a novel method for a neurology division to participate in a hospital's expansion of care for patients with COVID-19 while maintaining existing team structures and their inherent supervisory and interpersonal support mechanisms.
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Infecções por Coronavirus/terapia , Departamentos Hospitalares/organização & administração , Neurologia/organização & administração , Admissão e Escalonamento de Pessoal , Pneumonia Viral/terapia , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Cuidados Críticos/organização & administração , Eletroencefalografia/métodos , Hospitais Urbanos , Humanos , Internato e Residência/organização & administração , Enfermagem em Neurociência/organização & administração , Cidade de Nova Iorque , Pandemias , SARS-CoV-2 , Provedores de Redes de Segurança , Centros de Atenção TerciáriaRESUMO
ABSTRACT: Recurrent insomnia is an uncommon manifestation that is encountered rarely in a sleep clinic. We report a woman with recurrent insomnia due to an autoimmune process that resolved after a course of immunotherapy.