This is a demonstration of the intubation of a patient with actual or suspected COVID-19 using a manikin.

The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) have issued a Position Paper, providing recommendations for clinicians caring for patients with liver diseases during the current pandemic.

We report the observation that 14.5% of COVID-19 patients had positive RT-PCR testing again after discharge. We describe correlations between laboratory parameters and treatment duration (r= -0.637; p=0.002) and time to virus recrudescence (r= 0.52; p=0.008) respectively, suggesting the need for additional measures to confirm illness resolution in COVID-19 patients.

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Sociedad Española de Cirugía Maxilofacial y de Cabeza y Cuello for tracheotomy procedures to COVID-19 patients. 

Procedure in which the patient has to collect a sputum sample for COVID-19 testing.
CDC Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Endotracheal suctioning technique videotutorial to learn how to collect a speciment from the lower respiratory tract for COVID-19 testing.
CDC Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Persons for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a guidance for US healthcare professionals to prepare their facilities in front of the Covid-19 Pandemic. This interim guidance outlines goals and strategies for all U.S. facilities to respond to community spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19).
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Sociedad Española de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Terapéutica del Dolor guidelines for intubation. 

As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps into South Africa, the decades the country has spent fighting the world’s worst combined epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV could give it an advantage. But those infections could also worsen the pandemic’s impact.

By 6 April, South Africa had 1686 confirmed COVID-19 infections, the highest number on the continent—and that is almost certainly an undercount. At the same time, one in every five people aged 15 to 49 is HIV positive and two to three pe...

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has additional comments on thi COVID-19 disease. Following a careful review of the current situation, we recommend the following:

Initial settings with alarms and circuit hook up for the Philips Respironics Esprit Ventilator.