2020

INTRODUCTION Contents Editorial – Jana Šeblová THEME OF THE YEAR: THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 – an Infectious Disease Specialist’s Perspective – Vyacheslav Grebenyuk, Milan Trojánek Risk of novel coronavirus transmission in prehospital care and implications from

INTRODUCTION Contents Editorial – Jana Šeblová EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS Direct transport of hemodynamically stable patient with polytrauma from the EMS ambulance to CT shortens the time to diagnostics of life-threatening injuries – Miroslav Durila, Milan Grund, Jan Beroušek, Evžen Beitl, Renata

INTRODUCTION Contents Editorial – Jana Šeblová EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS Management of a patient with bacterial meningitis at the emergency department: case report and literature review – Robin Šín, Jana Váchalová PREHOSPITAL EMERGENCY CARE Pragmatic differential diagnostics of acute shortness of breath

INTRODUCTION Contents Editorial – Jana Šeblová EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS Status epilepticus as a complication of blunt trauma in 41-year-old patient: a case report – Robin Šín, Radek Tupý, Patrik Christian Cmorej, Lukáš Handl Paradoxical embolism – a rare cause of acute