A system to save lives in Italy: A cultural challenge for community and government

Affiliations

• ¹ Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Institute of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
• ² Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
• ³ First Cardiology Department - Cath Lab and Intensive Cardiac Care, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Clinical Director, Emergency Medicine, A.O.U. San Luigi Gonzaga, Orbassano, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Health Professions, Pediatric Research Institute "G. Gaslini", Genova, Italy.
• ⁶ Nursing Emergency Area Department, Presidio Ospedaliero del Levante Ligure, La Spezia, Italy.
• ⁷ Accident and Emergency, Ospedale Santa Maria degli Angeli, Putignano, Italy.
• ⁸ Pediatric Intensive Care, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Roma, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Anaesthesia and Acute and Procedural Pain Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and EMS, Ospedale Maggiore, Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: fsemeraro2008@gmail.com.