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Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine 8/2020

01-11-2020 | IM-Point of view

From the quarantine diary of an emergency physician: the coronavirus and the dysautonomic storm

Authors: Simone Vanni, Peiman Nazerian, Giancarlo Bini

Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine | Issue 8/2020

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The preparations are fervent, the organizational changes are many and rapidly evolving, meetings follow one another. I go up and down the stairs with my mask and I seem to be struggling more than usual, is it the mask? When I talk and I get excited about a subject I feel like I have to finish the sentence first, is it the tension? …
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Title
From the quarantine diary of an emergency physician: the coronavirus and the dysautonomic storm
Authors
Simone Vanni
Peiman Nazerian
Giancarlo Bini
Publication date
01-11-2020
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Published in
Internal and Emergency Medicine / Issue 8/2020
Print ISSN: 1828-0447
Electronic ISSN: 1970-9366
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-020-02352-w

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