Top-ten papers in pneumonia (2020-2021).

Despite the fact that the last year has been marked by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there have been many articles published on non-COVID pneumonia. Making the selection has not been easy, having based on those articles that we think can bring us some novelty and help in clinical practice. We have divided the selection into seven sections: patient severity, diagnosis, treatment, ventilation, novelties in the guidelines, fungal infection and organ donation.

Comparative study of visits to Hospital Emergency Department for opioid overdose in two periods.

Objective: The last few years have seen an increase in the use of opioid analgesics and in the incidence of opioid overdoses. The objective of this study was to evaluate the number of overdose-related visits to a  university hospital emergency department at two different periods of time  to analyze potential differences in terms of patient characteristics,  prescription profile, and treatment.

Method: This is a retrospective observational study of opioid  verdoserelated visits in two periods of time: 2009-2014 and 2018-2020.