Open AccessCOVID–Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities Intensive Care Unit
Author(s) -
Ricardo Verdiner,
Christopher G. Choukalas,
Shahla Siddiqui,
David Stahl,
Samuel M. Galvagno,
Craig S. Jabaley,
Raquel R. Bartz,
Meghan B. LaneFall,
Kristina Goff,
Roshni Sreedharan,
Suzanne Bennett,
George W. Williams,
Ashish K. Khanna
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000004957
Subject(s) - workgroup , anesthesiology , medicine , intensive care unit , covid-19 , critical care nursing , pandemic , intensive care , medical emergency , nurse anesthetist , medline , pain medicine , intensive care medicine , health care , nursing , anesthesia , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , computer network , computer science , political science , law , economics , outbreak , economic growth
In response to the rapidly evolving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the potential need for physicians to provide critical care services, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has collaborated with the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) to develop the COVID-Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities (CAESAR) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) workgroup. CAESAR-ICU is designed and written for the practicing general anesthesiologist and should serve as a primer to enable an anesthesiologist to provide limited bedside critical care services.