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The Integrated Medical Center (CMI) telemedicine model managed 71.9% of selected EMS calls without hospital visits.
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🚑 Emergency departments in Lombardy after COVID-19: more patients, longer waits, and growing challenges. Our study in Epidemiologia analyzes 15 million visits from 2019 to 2023.
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@rob_cosentini This would free up 25% of doctor time in our ED..it could be the easiest/fastest solution to ED staff shortage. But we need to rethink emergency medicine in Italy: do we still want to be able to staff wards as EM physicians or are we ready to dedicate ouserlves to the ED/EM only?
@drmarcogarrone @rob_cosentini Maybe we should stop calling them “observation area” and start to call them “boarding area waiting for appropriate staff” pushing the people upstairs to take care of their patients
@rob_cosentini What happened during adenosine push? Was it nothing at all or it just failed to cardiovert to sinus rhythm but showing an underline atrial activity ( i.e. atrial flutter)?
@JBLascarrou @rob_cosentini@ketaminh I think that in this very sick cohort of pts niv’s main utility was using it as a bridge to intubation/ICU care. Mortality within pts treated with IMV is still very high.
Helmet CPAP in ARDS during #COVID19 surge: treatment/bridge to ICU in a limited resources setting
First 10 days of our huge surge (20 ARDS/d): 23% of Helmet CPAP survived (P/F with PEEP≥5 =128) https://t.co/N6yW5x8tUY
Later, during first month, survival with helmet CPAP was 52%
Italian #Covid_19 experience according to the first hospitals involved: Lodi (Stefano Paglia), Piacenza (Andrea Magnacavallo) and Bergamo @SIMEU_EM https://t.co/KxCw3yCGog (10 Do's & 10 Don'ts, 10 red flags etc.)
Lessons from our initial experience in northern Ita
1 prepare massive hospital beds (ideally, pre-empy the hospital)
2 reorganise ER in intensity levels with 20% beds for NIV and the rest for O2
3 mind logistics and supply_O2, venturimeters, helmets, monitors etc
great challenge