1. Lung ultrasonography in COVID‐19: a game changer in the stroke unit?
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Valentina Tommasini, Carlo Lugnan, Giovanni Furlanis, Paola Caruso, A. Buoite Stella, Ilario Scali, Tommaso Cillotto, Paolo Manganotti, Miloš Ajčević, Marcello Naccarato, Lugnan, C., Tommasini, V., Furlanis, G., Naccarato, M., Caruso, P., Scali, I., Buoite Stella, A., Ajcevic, M., Cillotto, T., and Manganotti, P.
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Lung ultrasonography ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Clinical Neurology ,Unit (housing) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,COVID‐19 ,Pandemic ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Letters to the Editor ,Stroke ,stroke unit ,business.industry ,COVID-19 ,Outbreak ,lung ultrasonography ,medicine.disease ,Friuli venezia giulia ,Neurology ,Neurology (clinical) ,Medical emergency ,business ,Stroke Unit ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is rapidly spreading worldwide, and the WHO declared its pandemic nature on 11th March 20201. The outbreak has hit Europe and, as of April 19, 2020, Italy has the third largest number of confirmed cases, namely a total of 175,925 cases and 23,227 deaths according to the John Hopkins University 2. This is the largest health and economic emergency of our country since the post‐war period, and many hospitals are now dedicated exclusively to COVID‐19 assistance. Our University Hub Stroke Unit of Cattinara Hospital is in the northeaster Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia which enlisted 2,731 cases and 222 deaths at the time of writing3.
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- 2020