Multicentre, national, observational, retrospective and prospective study. The BLITZ-COVID19 study aims at describing the epidemiology of admissions to Italian Cardiology Intensive Care Units in the COVID-19 infection pandemia, the main aspects of the clinical management of inpatients, their short-term outcome, the absorption of resources related to their admission.
The BLITZ-COVID19 study, aims at describing the epidemiology of admissions to Italian Cardiology Intensive Care Units . The study is observational, multicentre, national and involves the collection of clinical data, both retrospectively and prospectively, using a web-based system. In conducting the study, no drugs are tested, nor are diagnostic tests or non-pharmacological therapies performed other than those that each participating cardiologist decides to perform following the rules of normal clinical practice. Diagnostic procedures and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies habitually prescribed for cardiovascular pathologies, which are the object of hospitalization, and those used in the event of a COVID-19 infection, will be recorded in the database.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
6,054
Cardiology Intensive Care Unit admission
Impact that COVID-19 infection may have had on the in-hospital mortality
Impact that COVID-19 infection may have had on the in-hospital mortality of the various clinical conditions admitted to ICU
Time frame: Enrollment
Epidemiology and management of patients admitted to ICU
The different diagnoses of discharge from the ICU and their frequency will be described. All hospitalized cardiac and non-cardiac pathologies will be listed, with particular reference to any COVID-19 infection.
Time frame: Enrollment
Management of patients admitted to ICU
Description of the main therapeutic decision in patients hospitalized for the most relevant pathologies
Time frame: Enrollment
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Ospedale Santo Spirito - Sc Cardiologia
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Ancona, AN, Italy
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Aosta, AO, Italy
Po Sant'Ottone Frangipane - U.O.C. Cardiologia - Utic
Ariano Irpino, AV, Italy
Aorn San Giuseppe Moscati - U.O. Cardiologia/Utic 'D. Rotiroti'
Avellino, AV, Italy
Ospedale Miulli - U.O.C. Cardiologia - Utic
Acquaviva delle Fonti, BA, Italy
Aou Policlinico - Uoc Cardiologia Ospedaliera
Bari, BA, Italy
Ospedale Di Venere - U.O.C. Di Cardiologia
Bari, BA, Italy
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Bari, BA, Italy
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Bentivoglio, BO, Italy
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