Practical challenges of managing COVID-19 positive patients in the adult intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital of Ireland | Zendy

Shankar Lal | Zendy; Ehtesham Khan | Zendy; Muhammad Anwar Malik | Zendy

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Practical challenges of managing COVID-19 positive patients in the adult intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital of Ireland

Author(s) -

Shankar Lal,

Ehtesham Khan,

Muhammad Anwar Malik

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

anaesthesia pain and intensive care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 2220-5799

pISSN - 1607-8322

DOI - 10.35975/apic.v24i3.1275

Subject(s) - pandemic , asymptomatic , covid-19 , intensive care unit , coronavirus , tertiary care , medicine , intensive care , intensive care medicine , disease , emergency medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak

On March 11th, 2020, the WHO (World Health Organization) announced the coronavirus disease (a respiratory tract infection) as a pandemic. It originally outbroke in Wuhan (China) and spread all around the world. It is caused by the beta coronavirus1 (Zoonotic Virus) a member of the severe acute metastasis syndrome-related coronavirus species (SARS-CoV-2) 2, 3. COVID-19 ranges in severity from asymptomatic or moderate to severe; a considerable percentage of patients develop a more severe disorder 1, depending on their co-morbidities.

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