The Lombardy Emergency Medical System Faced with COVID-19: The Impact of Out-of-Hospital Outbreak.

Nazzareno FagoniGiovanna PeroneGuido Francesco VillaSimone CeliPaola BeraGiuseppe Maria SechiClaudio MareAlberto ZoliMarco Botteri

Published in: Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors (2020)

The Lombardy region experienced an unexpected outbreak in an extremely short timeframe and in a limited area. The EMS coped with this pandemic, covering an extremely higher number of requests, with a ten-fold increase in the number of events managed.

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emergency medical
coronavirus disease
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respiratory syndrome coronavirus
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acute care