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Review
. 2021 Sep 27;11(10):961.
doi: 10.3390/jpm11100961.

Management of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department

Ioannis Pantazopoulos  1 , Stamatoula Tsikrika  2 , Stavroula Kolokytha  3 , Emmanouil Manos  4 , Konstantinos Porpodis  5
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Review

Management of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department

Ioannis Pantazopoulos et al. J Pers Med. .

Abstract

COVID-19 is an emerging disease of global public health concern. As the pandemic overwhelmed emergency departments (EDs), a restructuring of emergency care delivery became necessary in many hospitals. Furthermore, with more than 2000 papers being published each week, keeping up with ever-changing information has proven to be difficult for emergency physicians. The aim of the present review is to provide emergency physician with a summary of the current literature regarding the management of COVID-19 patients in the emergency department.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; emergency department; emergency physicians.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Emergency department reorganization for the management of COVID-19 outbreak.
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