WHY IS IT IMPORTANT THE FLU VACCINE?

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In this season the flu vaccine constitutes an important element of protection for persons considered more frail even more given the SARS-COV-2 health emergency.

The flu vaccine constitutes a protection, a simplification of the diagnosis and a better management of the Covid19 suspected cases, moreover it reduces the risk of complications related to the flu, and ensures a lower pressure on the health facilities also in terms of cost

Do Covid19 and flu virus are alike?

The World Health Organization has clarified what may be the similarities and possible differences between Covid19 and flu virus. Both appear with similar characteristics and attack the respiratory tract, and can be transmitted through contact, saliva droplets, sneezes or cough.

Although, if the range of symptoms seems to be similar, the disease impact on persons seems to be different. In this regard, the data – to the present day – concerning Covid19 suggest that the 80% of infections result soft and just the 15% of cases are severe, in flu cases the percentages related to serious and critical infections would be lower.

The Veneto Region is going to start the anti-flu campaign, the first region to get the supply of vaccines in early June 2020 with one million of doses. Also the Italian Health Ministry in the last few weeks reminded that “The aim is to enhance until the 75% the vaccine coverage, especially among the subjects at risk: persons from 60 years to up, children, chronically, immunodepressed, cancer and diabetic patients, and persons affcted by cardiovascular and respiratory diseases”.

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International webinar with Professor Ibrahim Tuncay

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Although the complicated period due to the Covid19 pandemic, the Clinica San Francesco continues in the development of its intense international and academic relations.

On Friday 2nd October 2020, MD Piergiuseppe Perazzini, Director of the Orthopaedics and Traumatology Functional Unit, joined as speaker an important webinar dedicated to the hip robotic surgery with guest of honour the Professor Ibrahim Tuncay, Medicine, Orthopaedics and Traumatology Faculty of Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul (Turkey). During the event Dr. Perazzini provided the learned colleague his ten-year experience of robot use in operating room. The Professor Tuncay was delighted for the excellent results achieved from his first robotic hip replacement thanks also to the surgical approach developed by doctor Perazzini’s staff. The doctor Perazzini is the European pioneer (and the second one outside the USA) of the robotic orthopaedic surgery having performed first in 2011 a robotic partial knee replacement and in 2012 robotic total hip replacement, in addition to having introduced in Italy in 2017 the robotic total knee replacement.

The Clinica San Francesco today is an international reference point for robotic surgery, because it holds since 2013 the CORE (European Robotic Orthopaedic Centre) and in 2019 was recognized by the Veneto Region as reference facility for the robotic orthopaedic surgery.