301. ANMCO POSITION PAPER: The role of cardiology in the management of the health needs in the post-Covid-19 era
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Marino Scherillo, Stefano Urbinati, Loris Roncon, Adriano Murrone, Massimo Imazio, Stefano Domenicucci, Domenico Gabrielli, Manlio Cipriani, Giuseppina Maura Francese, Nadia Aspromonte, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Vincenzo Amodeo, Michele Massimo Gulizia, Andrea Di Lenarda, Pasquale Caldarola, Furio Colivicchi, Fortunato Scotto di Uccio, and Serafina Valente
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Telemedicine ,Isolation (health care) ,Restructuring ,SARS-Cov-2 pandemic ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Phase (combat) ,03 medical and health sciences ,prescriptive appropriateness ,0302 clinical medicine ,Resource (project management) ,Multidisciplinary approach ,Pandemic ,Medicine ,AcademicSubjects/MED00200 ,cardiological outpatient activities ,cardiological inpatient activities ,business.industry ,territorial medicine ,Articles ,medicine.disease ,health needs ,cardiology ,Position paper ,Medical emergency ,telemedicine ,business ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
At the end of 2019 a new Coronavirus appeared in China and, from there, it spread to the rest of the world On 24th May, 2020, the confirmed cases in the world were more than 5 million and the deaths almost 350 000 At the end of May, Italy reported more than 27 000 cases among healthcare professionals and 163 deaths among physicians The National Health Systems from almost all over the world, including Italy's, were unprepared for this pandemic, and this generated important consequences of organizational nature All elective and urgent specialized activities were completely reorganized, and many hospital units were partially or completely converted to the care of the COVID-19 patients A significant reduction in hospital admissions for acute heart disease were recorded during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and, in order to gradually resume hospital activities, the Italian National Phase 2 Plan for the partial recovery of activities, must necessarily be associated with a Phase 2 Health Plan In regards to the cardiac outpatient activities we need to identify short term goals, i e reschedule the suspended outpatient activities, revise the waiting lists, review the 'timings' of the bookings This will reduce the number of available examinations compared to the pre-Covid-19 era The GP's collaboration could represent an important resource, a structured telephone follow-up plan is advisable with the nursing staff's involvement It is equally important to set medium-long term goals, the pandemic could be an appropriate moment for making a virtue of necessity It is time to reason on prescriptive appropriateness, telemedicine implementation intended as integration to the traditional management It is time to restructure the cardiological units related to the issue of structural adjustment to the needs for functional isolation Moreover, the creation of 'grey zones' with multidisciplinary management according to the intensity of care levels seems to be necessary as well as the identification of Covid dedicated cardiologies Finally, the pandemic could represent the opportunity for a permanent renovation of the cardiological and territorial medicine activities © 2020 Oxford University Press All rights reserved
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