The emergency room is the front office of the hospital. The doctors who work there are used to making quick decisions: what has changed with the Covid-19 emergency? What are the potentials and limitations of lung ultrasound?
But looking beyond the emergency what is the potential of using these multidisciplinary medical devices that allow you to investigate multiple districts?
Federico Mereta, medical-scientific journalist, interviewed Dr. Vito Cianci, Director of the Accident & Emergency Unit of Padua University Hospital, Padua (Italy)
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