Open AccessPractical 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.