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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 17(25), 2020

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2020.25.17.2000556

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Early experience of an infectious and tropical diseases unit during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Florence, Italy, February to March 2020

Journal article published in 2020 by A. R. de Gaudio, Filippo Lagi, Matteo Piccica, Lucia Graziani, Iacopo Vellere, Annarita Botta, Marta Tilli, Letizia Ottino, Beatrice Borchi, Marco Pozzi, I. Campolmi, Filippo Bartalesi, N. Di Lauria, G. Millotti, Jessica Mencarini and other authors.
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Abstract

We analysed the first 84 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients hospitalised in an infectious and tropical disease unit in Florence, Italy, over 30 days after the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. A 12% reduction in the rate of intensive care unit transfer was observed after the implementation of intensity care measures in the regular ward such as increasing the nurse/patient ratio, presence of critical care physicians and using high flow nasal cannulae oxygenation.