[HTML][HTML] Fast reshaping of intensive care unit facilities in a large metropolitan hospital in Milan, Italy: facing the COVID-19 pandemic emergency

A Zangrillo, L Beretta, P Silvani, S Colombo… - Critical care and …, 2020 - Elsevier
At the end of 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
outbreak spread from China all around the world, causing thousands of deaths. In Italy, the
hardest hit region was Lombardy, with the first reported case on 20 February 2020. San
Raffaele Scientific Institute—a large tertiary hospital and research centre in Milan, Italy—was
immediately involved in the management of the public health emergency. Since the
beginning of the outbreak, the elective surgical activity of the hospital was rapidly reduced …