Open AccessA comprehensive review of diagnosis and treatment in critically ill adults with COVID-19
Author(s) -
Shuanglan Xu,
Zi Chen,
Linyang Ge,
Aiping Chen,
Wei Zhang,
Sun Zhou,
Tingting Yu,
Shaoyun Shi,
Linfu Zhou
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
traditional medicine and modern medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2575-9019
pISSN - 2575-9000
DOI - 10.1142/s2575900020300015
Subject(s) - covid-19 , intensive care medicine , public health , medicine , epidemiology , critically ill , coronavirus , china , pandemic , medline , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , outbreak , virology , pathology , political science , law
The highly infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that emerged in Wuhan, China, was caused by a novel strain of coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Subsequently, it was considered as one of the serious potential threats to global public health due to rapid spread worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine in critically ill adults with COVID-19. We searched the related papers published up to April 20, 2020 on the PubMed and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. The findings will improve the potential recognition of COVID-19 among clinicians and the general public, and presumably contribute to the reduction of mortality.