52nd ANMCO Congress Abstracts e-Posters
| Autor: | L. Chiappa, M. Spina, P. Campadello, C. Moro, R. Rogacka, F. Avanzini, G. Balestri, V. Russo, M. Baffa, A. Anselmi, A. Guerrini, F. Achilli, G. Iacuitti, N. Mollichelli, D. Saltafossi, P. Bertocchi, S. Romano, A. Corticelli, D. Zuccato |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | European Heart Journal Supplements. 23:C49-C127 |
| ISSN: | 1554-2815 1520-765X |
| DOI: | 10.1093/eurheartj/suab064 |
| Popis: | Background: To face the health emergency due to the first spread in Italy of COVID- 19, a nationwide lockdown was instituted from 9 March to 3 May 2020. During this period all the hospital outpatient activities were suspended except for urgent cases. Objective: To evaluate the cardiological urgent outpatient examinations done in our hospital during the lockdown in view of the reduced hospitalizations and the increased cardiovascular deaths observed during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: The urgent cardiological examinations (requests with priority U and B, i.e., to be done within 3 and 10 days respectively) performed during the 8-week period of lockdown (38 working days) were compared with those performed during the same period in the previous year (37 working days). During the lockdown and the control period, the availability of urgent cardiological visits was the same (2 per day with priority U and 2 per day with priority B). The number of cardiological examinations performed and the main characteristics of the subjects attending the outpatient clinic in the two periods were evaluated, comparing them with the chi-square test and considering as significant p values |
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