Open AccessSaudi heart association, national heart center and national cardiopulmonary resuscitation committee taskforce statement on cpr and resuscitation during COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Abdulmajeed Khan,
Abdullah M. Kaki,
Abdulrahman R. Bakhsh,
Ahmed Hersi,
Jameel Abualenain,
Jubara Alallah,
Fayez Bokhari,
Nasser Alqahtani,
Bandar M. Alkabli,
Abdulrahman Al Qahtani,
Nawfal Aljerian,
Rashid AlOtaibi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/sja.sja_401_20
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , pandemic , covid-19 , resuscitation , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Corona virus disease 2019 is a global pandemic, which affects around 2million individuals with a high death rate that exceeds 90,000 death cases across the globe. The Saudi Heart Association and the national cardiopulmonary resuscitation committee developed a taskforce to discuss the magnitude of clinical situation and CPR management on COVID-19 patients in a prehospital and in-hospital settings. Meanwhile, the taskforce aims to develop a nation-wide clinical guidance to be used by health care workers and untrained laypersons to resuscitate COVID-19 suspected and diagnosed patients.