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SUBMITTER: Franchini S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7588723 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Franchini Stefano S Spessot Marzia M Landoni Giovanni G Piani Cecilia C Cappelletti Chiara C Mariani Federica F Mauri Simona S Taglietti Maria Vittoria MV Fortunato Manuela M Furlan Federico F Guglielmi Barbara B Setti Eleonora E Di Napoli Davide D Borghi Giovanni G Pascucci Federico F Ujlaki-Formenti George G Sannicandro Riccardo R Moro Matteo M Colombo Sergio S Dagna Lorenzo L Castagna Antonella A Tresoldi Moreno M Rovere-Querini Patrizia P Ambrosio Alberto A Ciceri Fabio F Zangrillo Alberto A Carlucci Michele M Faccincani Roberto R
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 20200727 5
<h4>Objectives</h4>An unprecedented wave of patients with acute respiratory failure due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease 2019 (COVID-19) hit emergency departments (EDs) in Lombardy, starting in the second half of February 2020. This study describes the direct and indirect impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak on an urban major-hospital ED.<h4>Methods</h4>Data regarding all patients diagnosed with COVID-19 presenting from February 1 to March 31, 2020, were pros ...[more]