On 21 February, the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases were diagnosed in
Lombardy and Veneto regions of northern Italy. During the subsequent days, the number of …

Abstract Background The Lombardy region has been the Italian region most affected by the
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. The emergency healthcare …

Abstract Objective The Lombardy region was among the areas most affected by COVID-19
infection worldwide; the Lombardy Emergency Medical System (EMS) responded …

Background. The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is overwhelming the
response of many regional health services across Italy. This article aims to report and …

Emilia-Romagna was one of the most affected Italian regions during the COVID-19 outbreak
in February 2020. We describe here the profound regional, provincial and municipal …

Background The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak is putting the European
National Health Systems under pressure. Interestingly, Emergency Department (ED) …

We recently read with interest the articles written by Baugh et al.[1] and Nourazari et al.[2]
regarding a significant decrease in hospital admissions through the Emergency Department …

Abstract In Northern Italy the coronavirus infection has spread since February 2020: the
increase in admissions of COVID-19 patients corresponded to a drastic decrease in …

Interestingly, while we were trying to manage the great increase of COVID-19 suspect
patients into the 'dirty'ED area, we noticed a drop of the ED access to the 'clean'area, for non …

Starting from 1st case in Italy, on February 20th, 2020, CO-rona VI-rus D-isease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic spread to whole Italian territory, with different regional distribution …