Episode 38 - COVID-19 Update: An Interview with Andrea Duca, MD

<p class="MsoNormal">COVID-19 Update 03-18-2020 - An interview with Andrea Duca, MD, Emergency Physician in Bergamo, Italy</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Time Stamps:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">01:29 Dr. Andrea Duca introduction.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">02:05 What were your shifts like at the start of the epidemic?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">04:50 Were you testing patients for CoOVID-19 initially?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">05:08 Were the COVID-19 tests completed in-house or sent out to a government lab?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">05:35 The arrival of the first cases. Then… and now.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">07:03 What percent of your daily volume is due to COVID-19 patients?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">08:17 Are COVID-19 patients diverted to a regional facility?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">09:13 Are you still testing patients for COVID-19 today?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">09:57 What is your current medication protocol?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">10:35 Which antivirals are you currently using?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">10:54 Hydroxychloroquine</p> <p class="MsoNormal">11:14 Do you use non-invasive ventilation?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">13:35 What kind of isolation do you use, airborne or droplet?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">14:46 Do you put on new PPE as you go room to room?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">15:21 What PPE do you currently use?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">15:38 When did you create dirty and clean zones in the emergency department?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">16:45 Do you have a dirty and clean side in the waiting room?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">17:03 What is your annual emergency department volume? Daily volume?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">18:04 How many treatment rooms are in your emergency department?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">18:38 What percent of patients are admitted? Do you have borders?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">19:54 Where do discharged patients go?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">20:14 Have you personally been infected?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">20:58 Do you test your staff who are ill? What is your protocol for infected