id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-306347-gmw3z85r Maniscalco, Pietro The deep impact of novel CoVID-19 infection in an Orthopedics and Traumatology Department: the experience of the Piacenza Hospital 2020-05-11 .txt text/plain 3415 178 56 Since the end of February, 2020 the words "coronavirus" and "CoVID-19" has become routinely used by Italian people because of the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus and the dramatic impact on Italy in terms of infected patients, overcrowding in hospitals and the high number of deaths. For this reason, we quickly modified several times the hospital organization increasing the number of emergency clinicians thanks to the help of the EDs of "Castel San Giovanni" and "Fiorenzuola d'Arda" Hospitals, moving away the Orthopedics and Traumatology Department in another local building in Piacenza -"Casa di Cura Piacenza"-, and designing a disaster plan. Based on the observation that the ED has been overcrowded with CoVID-19 infected people already in serious condition and all these patient had a story of days or weeks spent at this home with flu-like symptoms and exertional dyspnea at first, then dyspnea at rest with urgent hospitalization for acute respiratory failure, dr Cavanna designed a plan to dramatically reduce admission to ED. ./cache/cord-306347-gmw3z85r.txt ./txt/cord-306347-gmw3z85r.txt