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Editor, Senior Moderator
Early experience of an infectious and tropical diseases unit during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Florence, Italy, February to March 2020
We analysed the first 84 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients hospitalised in an infectious and tropical disease unit in Florence, Italy, over 30 days after the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. A 12% reduction in the rate of intensive care unit transfer was observed after the implementation of intensity care measures in the regular ward such as increasing the nurse/patient ratio, presence of critical care physicians and using high flow nasal cannulae oxygenation.
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https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.17.2000556#html_fulltext
- Filippo Lagi[SUP]1,2[/SUP], Matteo Piccica[SUP]1[/SUP], Lucia Graziani[SUP]1[/SUP], Iacopo Vellere[SUP]1[/SUP], Annarita Botta[SUP]1[/SUP], Marta Tilli[SUP]1[/SUP], Letizia Ottino[SUP]1[/SUP], Beatrice Borchi[SUP]2[/SUP], Marco Pozzi[SUP]2[/SUP], Filippo Bartalesi[SUP]2[/SUP], Jessica Mencarini[SUP]1,2[/SUP], Michele Spinicci[SUP]1,2[/SUP], Lorenzo Zammarchi[SUP]1,2[/SUP], Filippo Pieralli[SUP]3[/SUP], Giovanni Zagli[SUP]4[/SUP], Carlo Nozzoli[SUP]5[/SUP], Stefano Romagnoli[SUP]4,6[/SUP], Alessandro Bartoloni[SUP]1,2[/SUP], the COCORA working group[SUP]7[/SUP]
We analysed the first 84 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients hospitalised in an infectious and tropical disease unit in Florence, Italy, over 30 days after the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. A 12% reduction in the rate of intensive care unit transfer was observed after the implementation of intensity care measures in the regular ward such as increasing the nurse/patient ratio, presence of critical care physicians and using high flow nasal cannulae oxygenation.
full article
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.17.2000556#html_fulltext