Cardiac Care and COVID19 - Important Questions Answered

Maddalena Lettino of San Gerardo Hospital, Monza (Italy) answers some important questions regarding cardiology patients, cardiac care and COVID-19 in the new series of podcasts by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

What have we learned from this experience? And what is the situation of the acute cardiology patient in this pandemic situation?

Dr. Lettino says that cardiology patients are not so many in these times because most of the patients arriving at the hospital are patients with infectious disease and probably cardiology patients are staying at home, waiting until they have much more severe symptoms to go to the hospital. The number of beds dedicated to COVID-19 infected patients are definitely much more than the number of beds dedicated to cardiology patients. She explained that in Italy, they had to change the organisation of the cardiovascular emergency network because they couldn't have so many people from the cardiology department available for the current patients as most of the intensivists and doctors were dedicated to COVID-19 patients.