Facing Covid-19 in Italy - Ethics, Logistics, and Therapeutics on the Epidemic's Front Line.

By Lisa Rosenbaum. New England Journal of Medicine, 2020

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Facing Covid-19 in Italy Physicians in northern Italy have learned some painful lessons about rationing care during an epidemic. As health care systems work out ethical allocation principles, it se...

Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, General Health Professions

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• COVID-19 length of hospital stay: a systematic review and data synthesis (2020, neutral): “The risks of healthcare services being overwhelmed was most dramatically illustrated in Italy, where a rapid increase of COVID-19 cases needing hospitalisation pushed a well-equipped health system of 3.2 hospital beds per 1,000 people to breaking point [7] .”
• Prevalence, Severity and Mortality associated with COPD and Smoking in patients with COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020, background): “As a consequence, patients were dying because mechanical ventilation could not be offered, on top of acute shortage of clinicians who were able to manage those patients [50, 51].”
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