Intensive Care Unit Resource Planning During COVID-19 Emergency at the Regional Level: the Italian case.

Pietro Hiram Guzzi; Giuseppe Tradigo; Pierangelo Veltri

is the (which was not peer-reviewed) The copyright holder for this preprint The Italian National Health Service is organised on a national and regional 96 scale. The central government controls the distribution of resources and 97 services are arranged at a regional scale. There are 19 regions and two 98 autonomous provinces (21 total administrative units). Therefore the ICUs is 99 availability is organised at a regional scale, established by each region. Table 100 1 summarise current ICU beds availability per administrative units. Patients Italy where restriction plans to reduce citizen mobility has been applied at 108 the regional scale. Figure 3 shows the distribution of total ICU beds versus 109 occupied ICU beds (i.e. in hospitals) for each region in Italy. Figure 3 shows 110 the infected cases for each region. 111 We compare through our model the management of beds in single regions 112 9 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.