Management of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department

Ioannis Pantazopoulos; Stamatoula Tsikrika; Stavroula Kolokytha; Emmanouil Manos; Konstantinos Porpodis

doi:10.3390/jpm11100961

Management of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department

J Pers Med. 2021 Sep 27;11(10):961. doi: 10.3390/jpm11100961.

Authors

Ioannis Pantazopoulos¹, Stamatoula Tsikrika², Stavroula Kolokytha³, Emmanouil Manos⁴, Konstantinos Porpodis⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, 415 00 Larissa, Greece.
² Emergency Department, Thoracic Diseases COVID-19 Referral Hospital "SOTIRIA", 115 27 Athens, Greece.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Sismanoglio Hospital, 151 26 Athens, Greece.
⁴ Pulmonary Clinic, General Hospital of Lamia, 351 00 Lamia, Greece.
⁵ Respiratory Medicine Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, G Papanikolaou Hospital, 570 10 Thessaloniki, Greece.

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.

Publication types

Review