Care for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19.
By S. Murthy, C. Gomersall, R. Fowler. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020
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Initial reports suggest that COVID-19 is associated with severe disease that requires intensive care in approximately 5% of proven infections.1 Given how common the disease is becoming, as in prior major severe acute respiratory infection outbreaks—SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), avian influenza A(H7N9), and influenza A(H1N1)pdm09—critical care will be an integral component of the global response to this emerging infection. The rapid increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 highlighted how quickly health systems can be challenged to provide adequate care.1 Case-fatality proportions were 7-fold higher for patients in Hubei Province compared with those outside of the region, 2.9% vs 0.4%, emphasizing the importance of health system capacity in the care of patients who are critically ill with COVID-19.1 Thisarticlediscussesissuespertainingtoregionswherecriticalcare units have the capacity to provide mechanical ventilation, acknowledging that this capacity does not exist in many regions and that capacity could be exceeded in many places. This differential ability to manage the disease will likely have a substantial influence on patient outcomes.
Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
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Citations in the corpus
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding COVID-19 among healthcare workers in Henan, China (2020, background): “Moreover, nurses must collect saliva samples from patients' pharyngeal isthmus; if they neglect their own protection to facilitate their work, then they may greatly increase the risk of infection among HCWs, and they are more vulnerable to infection if they do not wash their hands carefully and freq”
- Cardiovascular complications in COVID-19 (2020, neutral): “Other studies suggest similar findings with increased risk of mortality in patients with prior CVD [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] 19] .”
- Proteomic and Metabolomic Characterization of COVID-19 Patient Sera (2020, neutral): “However, about 20% of patients suffer from respiratory distress and require immediate oxygen therapy or other inpatient interventions, including mechanical ventilation (Murthy et al., 2020; Wu and McGoogan, 2020).”