Care for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19

Care for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19

Initial reports suggest that COVID-19 is associated with severe disease that requires intensive care in approximately 5% of proven infections. Given how common the disease is becoming, as in prior major severe acute respiratory... read more

COVID-19 Airway Management – The Role of Simulation

COVID-19 Airway Management – The Role of Simulation

Health services around the world are faced with the challenge of preparing for the impact of COVID-19 on their communities as we all prepare for a potential global pandemic. I see a great role for simulation in process... read more

Simple Math Offers Alarming Answers About COVID-19 in US

Simple Math Offers Alarming Answers About COVID-19 in US

Much of the current discourse on the COVID-19 outbreak focuses on comparisons of the total caseload and total deaths with those caused by seasonal influenza. But these comparisons can be deceiving, especially in the early... read more

What If a COVID-19 Patient Needs a Surgery?

What If a COVID-19 Patient Needs a Surgery?

In the week of February 13–19, the World Health Organization reported that Singapore had more cases of COVID-19 than any other country outside of mainland China. We wish to share the protocol that we use in our hospital... read more

Respiratory Support for Patients with COVID-19 Infection

Respiratory Support for Patients with COVID-19 Infection

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 50 countries so far this year. Xiaobo Yang and colleagues described in their single-centered, retrospective, observational study that 52 of 710 patients with confirmed... read more

One Doctor’s Life on the Coronavirus Front Lines

One Doctor’s Life on the Coronavirus Front Lines

Driving one evening in Wuhan, China, last month, Zhang Xiaochun pulled her car to the side of the road. She was on the verge of a breakdown. She'd been working nonstop for days at the center of China's coronavirus outbreak,... read more

COVID-19 Situation in Japan

COVID-19 Situation in Japan

Dr Adrian Wong speaks to Prof Satoru Hashimoto on the #COVID19 situation in Japan in this ESICM podcast. Dr Adrian Wong is a consultant in critical care in King’s College Hospital, London. He is the chair of the Editorial... read more

ECMO Support in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

ECMO Support in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) use has been increasing in severe respiratory and/or cardiac failure despite implementation of conventional care. This technology has been proven valuable in treating viral pneumonia... read more

Review of the Current Evidence on COVID-19 in Intensive Care

Review of the Current Evidence on COVID-19 in Intensive Care

Join Dr. David Lyness as he discusses the current evidence on COVID-19 in Intensive Care. A coronavirus is one of many viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract... read more

Critical Care Crisis and Some Recommendations During the COVID-19 Epidemic in China

Critical Care Crisis and Some Recommendations During the COVID-19 Epidemic in China

The COVID-19 epidemic has placed a huge burden on the Chinese health care system. This crisis has dramatically affected the delivery of critical care due to a lack of resources, lack of prediction models and of course the... read more

Imaging Changes of Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in Advanced Stage

Imaging Changes of Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in Advanced Stage

The imaging changes of acute stage from a case of 75-year-old male patient with severe COVID-19 pneumonia combined acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), septic shock, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) who... read more

How to Save Lives in a COVID-19 Pandemic

How to Save Lives in a COVID-19 Pandemic

The pace of COVID-19, the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak, has been astonishing, and it is inevitable that this will become a pandemic, if it hasn't already. When a disease is a pandemic, it considered to be an ongoing... read more

Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China

During the first 2 months of the current outbreak, Covid-19 spread rapidly throughout China and caused varying degrees of illness. Patients often presented without fever, and many did not have abnormal radiologic findings. The... read more

The Wuhan Coronavirus Survival Manual: How to Prepare for Pandemics and Quarantines

The Wuhan Coronavirus Survival Manual: How to Prepare for Pandemics and Quarantines

Panic over the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China is becoming more widespread and people are frantically getting prepared for the possibility of a deadly pandemic that could span the globe. Things like N95 masks... read more