European Society For Emergency Medicine position paper on emergency medical systems' response to COVID-19

L Garcia-Castrillo, R Petrino, R Leach… - European Journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory epidemic is creating a stressed situation in all
the health systems of the affected countries. Emergency medical systems and specifically …

How emergency departments prepare for virus disease outbreaks like COVID-19

M Möckel, U Bachmann, W Behringer… - European Journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Acute outbreaks of novel virus caused diseases like coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
challenge the national and international healthcare systems and specifically the emergency …

Reorganising the emergency department to manage the COVID-19 outbreak

LJJ Quah, BKK Tan, TP Fua, CPJ Wee, CS Lim… - International journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 disease outbreak that first surfaced in Wuhan, China, in
December 2019, has taken the world by storm and ravaged almost every country in the …

Emergency department and out-of-hospital emergency system (112—AREU 118) integrated response to coronavirus disease 2019 in a Northern Italy centre

S Perlini, F Canevari, S Cortesi, V Sgromo… - Internal and emergency …, 2020 - Springer
Since December 2019, the world has been facing the life-threatening disease, named
Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), recognized as a pandemic by the World Health …

Management of COVID-19-related challenges faced by EMS personnel: a qualitative study

F Mohammadi, B Tehranineshat, M Bijani… - BMC emergency …, 2021 - Springer
Background As the first link in the chain of providing healthcare services in the frontline of
the battle against COVID-19, emergency medical services (EMS) personnel are faced with …

[HTML][HTML] How the COVID-19 epidemic affected prehospital emergency medical services in Tehran, Iran

P Saberian, JL Conovaloff, E Vahidi… - Western Journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We evaluated the chief complaint as well as the pattern and number of EMS calls
and dispatches during the 28-day intervals before and after the February 18, 2020, COVID …

Public health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emergency healthcare system

G Stirparo, A Oradini-Alacreu, M Migliori… - Journal of Public …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on census, organization and activity of a large urban Emergency Department

I Comelli, F Scioscioli, G Cervellin - Acta Bio Medica: Atenei …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …

The Lombardy emergency medical system faced with COVID-19: the impact of out-of-hospital outbreak

N Fagoni, G Perone, GF Villa, S Celi… - Prehospital …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Objective The Lombardy region was among the areas most affected by COVID-19
infection worldwide; the Lombardy Emergency Medical System (EMS) responded …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital emergency departments: results of a survey of departments in 2020-the Spanish ENCOVUR study

A Alquézar-Arbé, P Piñera, J Jacob, A Martín… - …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Objective. To estimate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on
the organization of Spanish hospital emergency departments (EDs). To explore differences …