Article ; Online: Essere cardiologo ai tempi del SARS-COVID-19: è tempo di riconsiderare il nostro modo di lavorare?
Giornale italiano di cardiologia (2006)
2020 Volume 21, Issue 5, Page(s) 354–357
Abstract: The SARS-COVID-19 pandemic is bringing to light significant issues that require deliberations on how to manage patients at high cardiovascular risk or with proven heart disease. The evidence that the hospital can be a place where one might contract the ... ...
| Title translation | Being a cardiologist at the time of SARS-COVID-19: is it time to reconsider our way of working? |
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| Abstract | The SARS-COVID-19 pandemic is bringing to light significant issues that require deliberations on how to manage patients at high cardiovascular risk or with proven heart disease. The evidence that the hospital can be a place where one might contract the infection and spread the disease has drastically reduced non-COVID-19 accesses to emergency rooms (ER) and to elective non-COVID-19 hospital activities. If this, on one hand, results in reducing improper access to the ER and hospital, on the other hand it substantiates the risk of underestimating problems not connected to COVID-19, such as an increased delay in the diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular emergencies. In addition, the need to reorganize hospital activities to treat patients suffering from serious COVID-19 disease forms forces us to reflect on how to safely manage patients who stay at home with milder COVID-19 disease forms and the need to keep the most vulnerable subjects, such as patients with chronic heart failure, away from the hospital. The problem is furtherly amplified by the uncertain trend of the epidemic, by the duration of forced isolation and limited mobility measures and by the inadequate integration between hospital and territory, especially in high-risk areas such as residences for the elderly or in socially and economically fragile environments. Our opinion is that a syndemic approach, which considers the complex interplay between social, economic, environmental and clinical problems, can be the most appropriate and achieved by means the contribution of telemedicine and telecardiology, intended as integration and not as an alternative to traditional management. A flexible use of telematic tools, now available for teleconsultation, and/or remote monitoring adapted to the needs of clinical, family and social-health contexts could allow the creation of integrated and personalized management programs that are effective and efficient for the care of patients. |
| MeSH term(s) | Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Cardiologists ; Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control ; Coronavirus Infections/transmission ; Humans ; Pandemics/prevention & control ; Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control ; Pneumonia, Viral/transmission ; Remote Consultation ; Risk Factors ; SARS-CoV-2 |
| Keywords | covid19 |
| Language | Italian |
| Publishing date | 2020-04-27 |
| Publishing country | Italy |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 2272414-X |
| ISSN | 1972-6481 ; 1827-6806 |
| ISSN (online) | 1972-6481 |
| ISSN | 1827-6806 |
| DOI | 10.1714/3343.33133 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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