In the following months of May and June 2020, there was a recovery that was clearly below the previous year’s number. Out of a total of about 35,000 monthly accesses, hospital visits were reduced by more than 50% during lockdown. – number of triage macro-diagnoses, such as trauma, burns, chest pain and abdominal pain. – total number of hospitalizations of patients from the Emergency Room and admissions to the Department of Cardiology
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– total number of hospital accesses and subdivision by triage priority color code Specifically, the following variables were identified:
The study involved 5 hospitals in Northern and Central Italy (Bologna, Brescia, Milan, Pisa and Savona). The data collected were compared to those of the same time period in the year 2019. The retrospective observational study in question was conducted by the Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC), with the aim of analyzing the phenomenon and measuring both in qualitative and quantitative terms which types of patients markedly avoided accessing the emergency service during the period under review (March – April 2020). The factors that played a key role in this trend were certainly both the advice from Health Authorities to avoid the Emergency room if not for urgent necessity, and the fear of being infected. Hospitals faced a large increase in admissions of COVID-19 patients, accompanied by a drastic decrease in admissions to the Emergency Room for other pathologies. Northern Italy was hit hard beginning late February 2020, with peaks in March and April. The Coronavirus pandemic has profoundly changed the life of each of us from many points of view, including the use of Health Services, especially in relation to problems not attributable to Covid itself (1) (2). These changes represent another dramatic side of the current pandemic. In the retrospective study presented, this phenomenon is analyzed both in terms of reduced access to the Emergency Departments in Italy, and in terms of the triage priority color code assigned based on severity of the patient’s condition. The increase in hospitalizations of patients affected by COVID-19 led to a dramatic decrease in the admissions to the Emergency Department of patients suffering from other pathologies. The COVID-19 infection has spread rapidly in northern Italy since February 2020. (2021) Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on emergency room access in Northern and Central Italy, Emergency Care Journal, 17: 9705 At a glance Since then, the disease has been blamed for the deaths of more than 100,000 people in the country, but only weeks ago the country appeared to be bouncing back, albeit cautiously.Giostra, F Mirarchi, MG Farina,1G Paolillo,C Sepe, C Benedusi, F Bellone, A Ghiadoni, L Santini, M Barbieri, G Guiddo,G Riccardi, A Lerza, R Coen, D.
Italy was the first country in the world to implement a nationwide lockdown last winter, when it was the nation at the epicenter of the pandemic. He promised they would be accompanied, however, by financial support for families and businesses, "as well as the acceleration of the vaccine program, which alone gives hope of an exit from the pandemic." medical staff tend to a patient in the COVID-19 unit of the Bolognini hospital in Seriate, Bergamo, Italy, March 12, 2021. Speaking at a vaccination center near Rome's Fiumicino airport, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said the "measures are necessary to avoid a deterioration that would make even more stringent measures inevitable." Restrictions are being tightened in response to yet another rise in case numbers - Italy is entering a third wave of coronavirus infections. Rome - A year after COVID-19 struck Italy, more than half of the country's residents were set to be placed back under hard lockdown restrictions from Monday, March 15 at least through Easter. Italy faces third wave of COVID-19 after difficult year 06:57
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