Neurosurgery During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Update From Lombardy, Northern Italy

Acta Neurochirurgica

Zoia, Cesare; Bongetta, Daniele; Veiceschi, Pierlorenzo; Cenzato, Marco; Di Meco, Francesco; Locatelli, Davide; Boeris, Davide; Fontanella, Marco M.

Introduction

Since February, 21st 2020, when the first person infected was reported in Lombardy, Italy rapidly became home to a massive Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Currently, on 21th March, 53,578 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Italy. 6072 patients are now hospitalized. The number of deaths has risen to 4825 while 6072 were declared healed [4]. This data shows that Italy is, currently, the second most affected nation in the world by the epidemic, second only to China

Keywords

RCT; Clinical aspects, diagnosis, treatment