Prompt and unavoidable requalification of ordinary hospital wards into a centralized department characterized by high-intensity treatment due to COVID-19 epidemic: the experience of Romano di Lombardia Hospital

Stress-testing interventional cardiology organization to streamline procedures during COVID-19 pandemic, and beyond

“…This has left many patients in need of proper diagnosis and therapy for chronic cardiac disease (e. g., atrial fibrillation [ 2 ]) without proper management. Similarly, hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction have substantially declined worldwide, mostly as an effect of paucity of available hospital beds [ 3 ], and/or because intensive care units (ICU) at times have been converted into COVID ICUs [ 4 , 5 ]. Overall, these observations have put under focus the issue that proper dealing with the consequences of a pandemic also requires to pay attention to the (even greater) number of patients with other, potentially severe diseases.…”