NCT04744415

Hospitalizations During Pandemia in the Italian Coronary Care Unit Network

Epidemiology of the Hospitalizations in the Italian Coronary Care Unit Network at the Time of Covid19

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 6,054 (actual)
• Sponsor: Heart Care Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Multicentre, national, observational, retrospective and prospective study. The BLITZ-COVID19 study aims at describing the epidemiology of admissions to Italian Cardiology Intensive Care Units in the COVID-19 infection pandemia, the main aspects of the clinical management of inpatients, their short-term outcome, the absorption of resources related to their admission.

Detailed description

The BLITZ-COVID19 study, aims at describing the epidemiology of admissions to Italian Cardiology Intensive Care Units . The study is observational, multicentre, national and involves the collection of clinical data, both retrospectively and prospectively, using a web-based system. In conducting the study, no drugs are tested, nor are diagnostic tests or non-pharmacological therapies performed other than those that each participating cardiologist decides to perform following the rules of normal clinical practice. Diagnostic procedures and pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies habitually prescribed for cardiovascular pathologies, which are the object of hospitalization, and those used in the event of a COVID-19 infection, will be recorded in the database.

Conditions

• Management and Epidemiology of Patients Admitted in ICU

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Epidemiology of admissions	Cardiology Intensive Care Unit admission

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-09
• Primary completion: 2021-02-09
• Completion: 2021-03-23
• First posted: 2021-02-09
• Last updated: 2026-01-02

Locations

109 sites across 1 country: Italy