The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Interventional Cardiology Workload in Private Versus Public Hospitals of Romania in 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected and changed medical activity worldwide. Public hospitals have been suffocated by the large number of Covid-19 patients, sometimes making it difficult for patients with other conditions to be admitted to hospital. This was also true for patients with cardio...

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Published in:Mædica 2022-12, Vol.17 (4), p.795-798
Main Authors: Udroiu, Cristian A, Predescu, Lucian M
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected and changed medical activity worldwide. Public hospitals have been suffocated by the large number of Covid-19 patients, sometimes making it difficult for patients with other conditions to be admitted to hospital. This was also true for patients with cardiovascular disease. In the present article we describe the main variations in the activity of interventional cardiology laboratories in Romania between the pre-pandemic year 2019 and the pandemic year 2020 in private and public hospitals.
ISSN:1841-9038
2069-6116
DOI:10.26574/maedica.2022.17.4.795