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1. Where have the children with epilepsy gone? An observational study of seizure-related accesses to emergency department at the time of COVID-19

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Arianna Terrinoni, Benedetto Vitiello, Caterina Lux, Dario Calderoni, Federica Di Santo, Chiara Davico, Antonio Francesco Urbino, Federica Ricci, Roberta Vittorini, Mauro Ferrara, Federico Amianto, and Daniele Marcotulli

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Emergency Medical Services, Reduced risk, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Short Communication, Clinical Neurology, Hospitalization rate, Parental supervision, 03 medical and health sciences, Epilepsy, 0302 clinical medicine, Civd-19, Emergency, Seizures, Health care, medicine, Humans, Child, Children, Child neurology, Covid-19, Seizure, SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, General Medicine, Emergency department, medicine.disease, Hospitalization, Italy, Neurology, Emergency medicine, Observational study, Neurology (clinical), Emergency Service, Hospital, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdown measures drastically changed health care and emergency services utilization. This study evaluated trends in emergency department (ED) access for seizure-related reasons in the first 8 weeks of lockdown in Italy. Methods All ED accesses of children (

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2020
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2. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergencies

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Martina Rosa-Brusin, Federico Amianto, Benedetto Vitiello, Luca Cammisa, Ilaria Secci, Caterina Lux, Daniele Marcotulli, Mauro Ferrara, Claudia Bondone, Dario Calderoni, Marzia Porro, Federica Di Santo, Antonio Francesco Urbino, Chiara Davico, Chiara Bosia, Roberta Campanile, Arianna Terrinoni, and Federica Ricci

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Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Physical Distancing, Age Factors, Ambulatory Care, Child, Communicable Disease Control, Education, Distance, Emergencies, Female, Hospitalization, Humans, Italy, Mental Health, Organizational Innovation, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Emergency Services, Psychiatric, Mental Disorders, Education, symbols.namesake, Ambulatory care, Pandemic, medicine, Poisson regression, Psychiatry, Distance, business.industry, Social distance, medicine.disease, Mental health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Mood disorders, symbols, Anxiety, Psychiatric, medicine.symptom, business, Psychopathology, Emergency Services
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OBJECTIVE: By forcing closure of schools, curtailing outpatient services, and imposing strict social distancing, the COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly affected the daily life of millions worldwide, with still unclear consequences for mental health. This study aimed to evaluate if and how child and adolescent psychiatric visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs) changed during the pandemic lockdown, which started in Italy on February 24, 2020. METHODS: We examined all ED visits by patients under 18 years of age in the 7 weeks prior to February 24, 2020, and in the subsequent 8 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown at two urban university hospitals, in Turin and Rome, Italy. ED visits during the corresponding periods of 2019 served as a comparison using Poisson regression modeling. The clinician's decision to hospitalize or discharge home the patient after the ED visit was examined as an index of clinical severity. RESULTS: During the COVID-19 lockdown, there was a 72.0% decrease in the number of all pediatric ED visits (3,395) compared with the corresponding period in 2019 (12,128), with a 46.2% decrease in psychiatric visits (50 vs 93). The mean age of psychiatric patients was higher in the COVID-19 period (15.7 vs 14.1 years). No significant changes were found in hospitalization rate or in the prevalence distribution of the primary reason for the psychiatric ED visit (suicidality, anxiety/mood disorders, agitation). CONCLUSIONS: In the first 8 weeks of the COVID-19-induced social lockdown, the number of child and adolescent psychiatric ED visits significantly decreased, with an increase in patient age. This decrease does not appear to be explained by severity-driven self-selection and might be due to a reduction in psychiatric emergencies or to the implementation of alternative ways of managing acute psychopathology.

Published
2021

3. Access to emergency departments for acute events and identification of sickle cell disease in refugees

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Filippo Mazzi, Rossellina Rosso, Paolo Rigano, Giovanna Graziadei, Giovanna Russo, Claudio Pulvirenti, Monica Rizzi, Federico Bonetti, Vincenzo Spadola, Gian Luca Forni, Valeria Pinto, Maria Caterina Putti, Giovanbattista Ruffo, Barbara Gianesin, Caterina Lux, Roberto Lisi, Maddalena Casale, Lucia De Franceschi, Frédéric B. Piel, De Franceschi, L, Lux, C, Piel, Fb, Gianesin, B, Bonetti, F, Casale, M, Graziadei, G, Lisi, R, Pinto, V, Putti, Mc, Rigano, P, Rosso, R, Russo, G, Spadola, V, Pulvirenti, C, Rizzi, M, Mazzi, F, Ruffo, G, and Forni, Gl.

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Male, Sickle cell disease, refugees, emergency, anemia, screening, Pilot Projects, Disease, Biochemistry, Health Services Accessibility, sickle cell disease, emergency department, acute vaso-occlusive crisis, Epidemiology, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Mass Screening, Child, 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology, RISK, Refugees, Emergency Service, emergency, Anemia, Hematology, Sickle cell anemia, Sickle Cell, Italy, Child, Preschool, Female, Medical emergency, Emergency Service, Hospital, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, medicine.medical_specialty, emergency department, Adolescent, Refugee, Immunology, Anemia, Sickle Cell, HEMOGLOBIN DISORDERS, Young Adult, Hospital, acute vaso-occlusive crisis, medicine, Anemia sickle-cell, Humans, Preschool, Mass screening, Science & Technology, business.industry, screening, Infant, 1103 Clinical Sciences, Cell Biology, Emergency department, medicine.disease, Hemoglobin disorders, IMMIGRATION, 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine, sickle cell disease, business
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2019

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