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cord-350065-frg7gvf5	Parolari, Alessandro	Safety for all: coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and cardiac surgery: a roadmap to ‘phase’ 2	2020-05-11		.txt	text/plain	2438	113	45	The COVID-19 pandemic has led the emergency task forces of the 20 Italian regions to reallocate intensive care unit resources, to cancel elective surgical procedures and to allocate intensive care unit beds usually dedicated to cardiac, neurosurgery and some coronary care patients to the care of patients with COVID-19 [3] . Our strategy is based on achieving the following 2 goals: (i) given the geographical heterogeneity of the epidemic, assessing the level of spread and severity in any given area and (ii) developing a COVID-free pathway to mitigate the risk of nosocomial infection. Although some areas have used the 'hub and spoke' approach whereby hospitals delivering cardiac surgery are not routinely treating COVID-19 patients, the focus and the challenge during phase 2 are the reconversion of the cardiac surgical departments where resources had previously been redeployed for the treatment of infected patients, the most common approach adopted in Italy during phase 1.	./cache/cord-350065-frg7gvf5.txt	./txt/cord-350065-frg7gvf5.txt