SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and emergency medicine: The worst is yet to come

Furthermore, the lack of bed spaces, the increase of admissions without any increase of staff can induce burn-out symptoms for emergency physicians and their early departure for other specialties [3,4]. Since the end of 2019, a new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) respons...

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Veröffentlicht in:The American journal of emergency medicine 2021-04, Vol.42, p.246-247
Hauptverfasser: Bouillon-Minois, Jean-Baptiste, Schmidt, Jeannot, Dutheil, Frédéric
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Zusammenfassung:Furthermore, the lack of bed spaces, the increase of admissions without any increase of staff can induce burn-out symptoms for emergency physicians and their early departure for other specialties [3,4]. Since the end of 2019, a new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) responsible to the CoronaVirus Disease (COVID-19) was discovered in the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China [5]. Even if all-cause mortality data in the general population are not yet available (only deaths by COVID-19 are day-to-day reported), previous epidemics showed similar significant reduction in the utilization of health facilities accompanied by a huge increase of all-cause mortality excluding infectious-related deaths [11]. [...]emergency staff are prepared to receive a massive increase of patients who did not seek care during the COVID-19 pandemic, because of their fear to get infected at the hospital. [...]wave will not be a wave of COVID but a tsunami of patients who did not seek care.Declaration of Competing Interest The authors of this work declare no conflict of interest.
ISSN:0735-6757
1532-8171
DOI:10.1016/j.ajem.2020.06.014