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Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option?
Aero-medical evacuation has been considered as a feasible and safe treatment option during COVID pandemic, particularly when the needs of affected patients exceed what local clinics and hospitals are supposed to provide. In this article, we analyzed the clinical course of 17 patients medically evacu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36614934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010133 |
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author | Benvenuto, Domenico Ascoli Bartoli, Tommaso Curtolo, Ambrogio Palazzolo, Claudia Vita, Serena Mariano, Andrea Scorzolini, Laura Ippolito, Giuseppe Marchioni, Luisa Cerini, Federico D’Offizi, Gianpiero Vaia, Francesco Nicastri, Emanuele |
author_facet | Benvenuto, Domenico Ascoli Bartoli, Tommaso Curtolo, Ambrogio Palazzolo, Claudia Vita, Serena Mariano, Andrea Scorzolini, Laura Ippolito, Giuseppe Marchioni, Luisa Cerini, Federico D’Offizi, Gianpiero Vaia, Francesco Nicastri, Emanuele |
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description | Aero-medical evacuation has been considered as a feasible and safe treatment option during COVID pandemic, particularly when the needs of affected patients exceed what local clinics and hospitals are supposed to provide. In this article, we analyzed the clinical course of 17 patients medically evacuated to the “L. Spallanzani” Institute in Rome, Italy from foreign countries, mainly Africa and Eastern Europe, who had COVID-19 pneumonia with, or without, coinfections such as malaria, HIV, tuberculosis and microbiologically confirmed sepsis syndrome. The aero-medical evacuation of patients with infectious diseases has become one of the greatest medical achievements we have reached during this pandemic; in fact, only two patients with life threatening coinfections have died. Although logistically difficult and cost consuming, medical evacuation should be considered as a treatment option more than a single extraordinary measure, especially among complex cases that require specific technical and human resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-98208832023-01-07 Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option? Benvenuto, Domenico Ascoli Bartoli, Tommaso Curtolo, Ambrogio Palazzolo, Claudia Vita, Serena Mariano, Andrea Scorzolini, Laura Ippolito, Giuseppe Marchioni, Luisa Cerini, Federico D’Offizi, Gianpiero Vaia, Francesco Nicastri, Emanuele J Clin Med Article Aero-medical evacuation has been considered as a feasible and safe treatment option during COVID pandemic, particularly when the needs of affected patients exceed what local clinics and hospitals are supposed to provide. In this article, we analyzed the clinical course of 17 patients medically evacuated to the “L. Spallanzani” Institute in Rome, Italy from foreign countries, mainly Africa and Eastern Europe, who had COVID-19 pneumonia with, or without, coinfections such as malaria, HIV, tuberculosis and microbiologically confirmed sepsis syndrome. The aero-medical evacuation of patients with infectious diseases has become one of the greatest medical achievements we have reached during this pandemic; in fact, only two patients with life threatening coinfections have died. Although logistically difficult and cost consuming, medical evacuation should be considered as a treatment option more than a single extraordinary measure, especially among complex cases that require specific technical and human resources. MDPI 2022-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9820883/ /pubmed/36614934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010133 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Benvenuto, Domenico Ascoli Bartoli, Tommaso Curtolo, Ambrogio Palazzolo, Claudia Vita, Serena Mariano, Andrea Scorzolini, Laura Ippolito, Giuseppe Marchioni, Luisa Cerini, Federico D’Offizi, Gianpiero Vaia, Francesco Nicastri, Emanuele Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option? |
title | Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option? |
title_full | Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option? |
title_fullStr | Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option? |
title_full_unstemmed | Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option? |
title_short | Aero-Medical Evacuation during SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Extraordinary Measure or Emerging Treatment Option? |
title_sort | aero-medical evacuation during sars-cov-2 pandemic: extraordinary measure or emerging treatment option? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36614934 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010133 |
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