COVID-19 in Clinical Practice - Lessons Learned and Future Perspectives

This book assesses the main features of COVID-19 from a clinical point of view, based on observations made during the disease epidemic in Northern Italy, one of the most affected areas in the world (the region has been the epicenter of the global pandemic for more than a month), and the first region outside China facing overwhelming numbers of cases. With no practical guidelines in place, Italian doctors were called to fight against an unknown disease. For the first time in modern history, healthcare workers and decision-makers had to find rapid solutions to a life-changing health crisis with no evidence-based recommendations or procedures in place to guide their actions.
Sharing the lessons learned from this experience, and offering practical tips on implementing future programs for pandemic preparedness, the book is a valuable tool for medical practitioners and health-policy-makers wanting to better understand the complexity of the current and future global health crises.


Flavio Tangianu is a physician specializing in sports medicine; he got a Master's degree in Education of Hospitalists for Complexity in Internal Medicine. He has a particular interest in cardiovascular and respiratory medicine. A former representative of the Young FADOI (the Italian Federation of Internal Medicine Associations) Section, he collaborates with  the Insubria University performing research on hemostasis and thrombosis disorders. Dr. Tangianu is currently working in a COVID hospital in Northern Italy.
Ombretta Para is a physician specializing in internal medicine and holds a master's in Interventional Pneumology. Her main research interests are respiratory medicine and critical illness. She is currently the representative of the Young FADOI Section.

Fabio Capello is a specialist in pediatrics and holds a master's in Journalism and Science Communication. He is involved in international cooperation projects in developing countries, and his main fields of interest are tropical medicine and global health, with a special focus on pediatrics; malnutrition and acute severe malnutrition in children; infectious diseases (including malaria, TB, HIV); medicine in extreme, low-resource and rural settings; eHealth and telemedicine; science communication and medical education; child care and wellbeing; and air pollution and ecology.