id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-279238-d49jvws2 Folesani, Gianluca Cardiac surgery model during COVID-19 pandemic: now it’s time to ramp up 2020-07-09 .txt text/plain 504 39 62 The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) spread rapidly from China 1 worldwide and on March 11 th 2020 the WHO declared the so-called COVID-19 a pandemic. All kind of Surgery Units stopped to treat elective cases focusing on urgent/emergent patients to minimize Intensive Care Unit beds utilization. Patients with underlying cardiovascular diseases have an increased risk of developing into the severe form of COVID-19 4 , while health-care workers are exposed to the risk of contagion or to become vectors of transmission. Emilia-Romagna is the third Region for the number of infections, after Lombardy and Piedmont, and the S.Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, became the main regional Hub center for COVID-19. Actually, in our center, each patient undergoes nasopharingeal swab one day before the hospitalization. If there's an emergent case, a nasopharingeal swab is performed and the patient is considered suspect until the result of the test. ./cache/cord-279238-d49jvws2.txt ./txt/cord-279238-d49jvws2.txt