We often ask ourselves this question. How health care might react to another unexpected event. A global pandemic? And above all, how structures can respond in times of crisis and concentrated difficulties, and above all considering the main health challenges, e.g. Cardiovascular diseases?
The answer is not easy to find. But there are growing reports of scientific and health initiatives that aim to offer precisely the right tools, so that Measure in advance What can happen. The RESIL-Card project, which has just completed a year, is moving in this direction. And it focuses on the capabilities of direct Responses in the management and maintenance of pathologies such as heart attack, stroke and heart failure.
Measurement of flexibility
As mentioned, the aim of this initiative is to try to understand how much and how the Italian healthcare system (and not only) will be able to respond to someone.Health or environmental emergency.
The RESIL-Card, funded by the European Commission within the EU4Health programme, aims to develop a tool that Health system resilienceJust like a dynamometer, facing crises. The initiative includes many interlocutors that are the “building blocks” of both social and health care.
For Italy, the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology (GISE) participates in the scientific front, supported by the Research Unit on Health Services and Systems of the Amsterdam UMC Medical Center (Netherlands), the global network of interventional cardiologists WE CARE (France). Supported by and the Catalan health service CatSalut (Spain).
The first phase has been completed.
The RESIL-Card project, which started last year, will allow us to understand what is Weak points of the health system What might go wrong during a crisis, whatever it may be, and to develop a series of useful indicators for that. Minimize risks and increased flexibility of cardiovascular care and treatment – explained Francesco Saia, Interventional Cardiologist at Policlinico Sant’Orsola, IRCCS University Hospital of Bologna.
The three-year project, which started a year ago, is divided into: Three steps.
“First, the conclusion, focused on the analysis of the literature and the screening among health care workers that allowed us to identify the main problems that affected the regular delivery of cardiology care during the epidemic period. – Reported by Alfredo Marches, Head of Cardiology, S.Maria GVM Hospital in Bari, in turn organized focus groups in different countries in which people make up the ‘health care supply chain’. participated and who established the so-called organizational standards for flexibility.DynamometerWhich we expect to be ready by spring 2025, at least in an early version.”
Field test
Now we are close to the beginning. The third and final step of the initiative. This is an experiment that will involve professionals and health care institutions from Italy and Catalonia and will produce a report at the end. A real anti-crisis planAlso using the experience brought by Pierre Carli, director of the Emergency Emergency Service (SAMU) in Paris and coordinator of the health plan for the recent Paris Olympics.
In short, what happened in the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic cannot be allowed to happen again. And that’s why experts are working on a project that aims to Strengthen European healthcare systems In providing continuity of care for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular patients during crises, such as epidemics, conflicts or climate challenges. The ultimate goal of the RESIL-Card consortium (which includes the Health Services and Systems Research Unit of the Amsterdam UMC Medical Center, the Global Interventional Cardiologists Network WeCare, the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology GISE and the Catalan Health Service. CatSalut) is therefore an epidemiologic Lessons are to be learned so that a Resilience assessment Advanced for implementation on European cardiovascular care pathways. This tool will help assess the stakeholders of the cardiac care system. Flexibility of care pathwaysas well as identifying and addressing gaps using recommended standards.
