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cord-331547-uqmjhhna	Bonalumi, Giorgia	A call to action becomes practice: cardiac and vascular surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the Lombardy emergency guidelines	2020-06-25		.txt	text/plain	4218	226	50	In Lombardy, the hub-and-spoke system was introduced to guarantee emergency and urgent cardiovascular surgery, whereas most hospitals were dedicated to patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Daily morning briefings were held internally at the Monzino hospital to monitor every aspect of all in-patients (COVID-19 status, number of available beds) and to share news from the Health Care Lombardy Regional System and the national government. If the test results were positive (chest CT scan indicative of interstitial pneumonia and/or positive results from the nasal swab), the patient was transferred to a dedicated zone called the 'red area', a separate zone with physical barriers and heavy use of personal protective equipment to protect working personnel, where only patients with COVID-19 were hospitalized. In cases of emergency surgery, the patient was considered and treated as positive for SARS-CoV-2 by the health care staff, who wore personal protective equipment, until screening results were available.	./cache/cord-331547-uqmjhhna.txt	./txt/cord-331547-uqmjhhna.txt