Abstract

Objective: To draw an accurate picture of the condition of the Cremona public Hospital from February 21^st to April 20^th 2020, in particular the Emergency Unit management of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Design: A retrospective analysis of data from the institutional database was conducted.

Setting: Data from the Emergency Unit of the ASST Cremona Hospital (Lombardia, Italy), a secondary level public hospital.

Patients: All the patients aged > 13 years that were admitted to the Emergency Room (ER) during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Intervention: We retrospectively analyzed the ER access records, the discharge/hospitalization reports from ER department and data from the national discharge register were analyzed by the informatic services using the Sql Oracle language. 

Measurements and Main Results: From February 21^st to April 20^th 2020, 5078 patients were admitted to the ER at the Cremona Hospital. Out of 5078 patients evaluated, 2226 (43.8%) were hospitalized and 2852 (56.2%) were discharged. Of the 2226 patients hospitalized (average age 67.1 ± 37.4, 1791 (76.4%) received a diagnosis of SARS-CO-V2 infection. 1198 hospitalized patients received a diagnosis of SARS Covid interstitial pneumonia. The average stay in ER was 771 ± 919 min for patients who have subsequently been hospitalized, while the patients discharged had an ER stay of 465 ± 808 min. The total COVID positive patients’ deaths, hospitalized through the ER, were 333, equal to the 19.6% of the total admissions from ER.

Conclusion: ER team has put together all the competences and abilities to exploit the limited resources available, in order to better manage the emergency.

Keywords: COVID 19; Emergency Room; Interstitial Pneumonia; Cremona; SARS

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