Open AccessIntensive care clincians’ information acquisition during the first wave of the Covid 19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Isabella Sawyer,
Jeni Harden,
Rosaleen Baruah
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the journal of the intensive care society/journal of the intensive care society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.551
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2057-360X
pISSN - 1751-1437
DOI - 10.1177/17511437221105777
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , intensive care , medicine , virology , intensive care medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
The global pandemic caused by novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to an unprecedented demand on critical care resources. The United Kingdom experienced its 'first wave' of Coronavirus-19 (Covid-19) disease in Spring 2020. Critical care units had to make major changes to their working practices in a short space of time and faced multiple challenges in doing so, including the challenge of caring for patients in multiple organ failure secondary to Covid-19 infection in the absence of an established evidence base of best practice. We undertook a qualitative investigation of the personal and professional challenges faced by critical care consultants in one Scottish health board in acquiring and evaluating information to guide clinical decision making during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.