Not all patients with severe COVID-19 infection may benefit from a ventilator.

Some physicians caring for COVID-19 patients question whether the threshold for placing someone on a ventilator should be raised, given that the breathing machines are in critically short supply nationwide, Stat News reported.







"I think we may indeed be able to support a subset of these patients" with less invasive breathing support, Dr. Sohan Japa, an internal medicine physicia...

In light of the challenges faced at this time by the surge of COVID-19 patients in New York City and likely to follow in many other U.S. cities, we call for strategies to preserve capacity and capability to care for these patients. To that end American College of Surgeons (ACS) have outlined the following series of recommendations for hospital and health care system leaders to consider when facing this challenge. 

For your safety, and to ensure that resources, hospital beds, and equipment are available to patients critically ill with COVID-19, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that non-emergency procedures be delayed. Here, you can find a list of statements that the ACS published about how to manage this situation and how to deal with all the surgeries already scheduled for patients before the Covid-19 Pandemic. 

In response to the rapidly evolving challenges faced by hospitals related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, and broad calls to curtail “elective” surgical procedures, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) provides the following guidance on the management of non-emergent operations.
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Google has created a website full of information resources related to COVID-19 disease. 
There you will find health information about symptoms, prevention, treatment, and propagation; security advices, tendencies of the pandemics all over the world, help resources to keep learning, teaching or working; and a donation fund.
Click here to access google.com/covid19

Developed by the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.

The COVID-19 crisis is requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers throughout the country to defer nonessential surgery to preserve personal protective equipment (PPE), protect the safety of health care professionals, and allocate potentially scarce resources for the care of the COVID-19 patient. In the past week, the American College of S...

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) published a guidance about how to properly set up a RMOC, a Regional Medical Operations Center. It is a single point of shared situational awareness and information that can implement effective command and control for the medical response to a large-scale mass casualty incident. The RMOC allows coordination across all EMS agencies, hospitals, public health representatives, and emergency management leaderships. Therefore, it allows for a better communicat...

AEC guidelines for oncological esophagus-gastric surgery during COVID-19 disease. 

A decision tree algorithm describing institutional guidelines for precautions for operating room team members was created. This algorithm is based on urgency of operation, anticipated viral burden at the surgical site, opportunity for a procedure to aerosolize virus, and likelihood a patient could be infected based on symptoms and testing.