Baciarello, Marco
Bonetti, Andrea
Vetrugno, Luigi
Saturno, Francesco
Nouvenne, Antonio
Bellini, Valentina
Meschi, Tiziana
Bignami, Elena http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9985-4126
Funding for this research was provided by:
Università degli Studi di Parma
Article History
Received: 17 December 2020
Accepted: 14 April 2021
First Online: 4 May 2021
Declarations
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: Luigi Vetrugno received travel support for Congress Lecture by Cook Medical. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest or competing interests.
: The relevant local ethics committee (Comitato Etico Unico per l’Area Vasta Emilia Nord protocol nr. 730/2020) approved the study protocol and guaranteed its accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Patients were routinely asked to consent to the use of anonymized aggregate data for research purposes as part of the intake process, as customary at our institution. We checked for expressed consent in patients’ medical records; additionally, we attempted to contact survivors to discharge to confirm their consent to the use of clinical data for the present study.