Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Italy has been one of the most affected countries in Europe and the second for number of deaths. In this commentary, we discuss some lessons that we learned as healthcare providers working in a large public hospital during the pandemic, with a special focus on the importance of infection containment and early diagnosis, the role of swab, serological tests, home isolation and individual protection devices, and the available therapies and management indications to better face a possible new outbreak in the near future. These comments should stimulate a more diffused, efficient and efficacious management of COVID-19 patients, also reducing the number of accesses to hospital emergency departments and the related spread of the infection.
Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic in Italy / Minni, Antonio; Ralli, Massimo; Candelori, Francesca; Cialente, Fabrizio; Ercoli, Lucia; Parlapiano, Claudio; Greco, Antonio; De Vincentiis, Marco. - In: BOSNIAN JOURNAL OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES. - ISSN 1512-8601. - (2020). [10.17305/bjbms.2020.4847]
Lessons learned from COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
Minni, AntonioPrimo
;Ralli, Massimo
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;Candelori, Francesca;Cialente, Fabrizio;Parlapiano, Claudio;Greco, AntonioPenultimo
;De Vincentiis, MarcoUltimo
2020
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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Italy has been one of the most affected countries in Europe and the second for number of deaths. In this commentary, we discuss some lessons that we learned as healthcare providers working in a large public hospital during the pandemic, with a special focus on the importance of infection containment and early diagnosis, the role of swab, serological tests, home isolation and individual protection devices, and the available therapies and management indications to better face a possible new outbreak in the near future. These comments should stimulate a more diffused, efficient and efficacious management of COVID-19 patients, also reducing the number of accesses to hospital emergency departments and the related spread of the infection.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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