Coronavirus in Italy - Report From The Front Lines
Topics covered in this video:
Where is Lombardy in Italy and why is it unique? (2:22)
COVID-19 cases and case-fatality rates in Italy to date (3:45)
What happened after the first patient tested positive? (4:45)
How did you reorganize your intensive care services as cases increased? (6:52)
How many critical care beds were available the first week? (8:54)
How many ICU beds were you able to add as cases surged? (10:10)
How does your experience match China's? (10:57)
Have there been infected children? (12:50)
Are the younger patients (30-40 yo) doing well after receiving treatment? (14:51)
Have you created separate ICUs for COVID-19 patients? (15:47)
How are you protecting health care personnel? (17:20)
Are health care workers allowed to go home? (20:36)
Are you making painful triage decisions? (21:30)
Are you seeing non-respiratory manifestations of disease? (22:52)
Are you using therapies besides traditional approaches to respiratory failure? (24:50)
Have you seen any cases of reinfection? (26:58)
What are your recommendations for the United States? (28:10)
How do the case #s in Lombardy compare to cases in the rest of Italy? (29:49)
Are you attempting noninvasive ventilation in less severe cases? (31:07)
When you go home, how are you protecting your family? (33:30)
