COVID-19
A coronavirus is one of many viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that are typically mild, such as the common cold, though rarer forms such as SARS, MERS and COVID-19 can be lethal.
A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans.
Common signs of infection include respiratory symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death.
At the end of 2019, a novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was found to be responsible for a cluster of atypical cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Since then, the virus has spread both inside and outside China, and the WHO has declared this a public health emergency.
With the outbreak now present in Europe, and likely to affect many more areas over the coming months, we at ESICM have decided to help ICU professionals around the world by providing information that may make a vital contribution in the battle to contain the infection, treat the patients and to protect the frontline workers.
Learning from experience can save lives and, for this purpose, we are using this webpage to share key online resources, including manuscripts and summaries of papers published in the ICM journal and other important medical journals, podcast interviews with experts and colleagues who will discuss management strategies in place for preparedness and their own experiences on the ground.
ESICM will continue to provide the most up to date and crucial information in order to play its part and to face this global challenge.
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COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application – Free Online Resources
Learn the principles and practice of critical care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic whilst protecting yourself and your peers. The University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh are offering this free education resource to frontline clinical staff which teaches daily practice for critical care patients with or without COVID-19, and how to apply ventilation and organ support principles to a critically ill COVID-19 patient.
Discover how to facilitate your own emotional and physical wellbeing in this high-stress, high-risk environment. You will be able to select the materials that are most relevant to your work.
The information in this resource will support those refreshing critical care knowledge and skills, newly qualified doctors, those who are upskilling, and those returning to acute clinical services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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‘Get ready’: Italian doctors warn Europe of coronavirus impact on hospitals
Independent March 07, 2020.
Editorial
Health Care Heroes of the COVID-19 Pandemic
JAMA. Published online April 20, 2020.
Interview
AMA COVID-19 update
Ama-assn.org April 20, 2020.
Interview
Cover Story
Covid-19 Challenges
ICU Management & Practice – Volume 20 – Issue 1, 2020
ARTICLES
Articles published online on Intensive Care Medicine website (Springer) – free online
Letter
Hospital mortality in mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients in Mexico
Silvio A. Ñamendys-Silva, Alan Gutiérrez-Villaseñor & Juan P. Romero-González in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original Article
Clinical Characteristics and Day-90 Outcomes of 4,244 critically ill adults with COVID-19: a prospective cohort study.
COVID-ICU group, for the REVA network and the COVID-ICU investigators
Review
Critical care management of adults with community-acquired severe respiratory viral infection.
Yaseen M. Arabi, Robert Fowler, Frederick G. Hayden in Intensive Care Medicine (2020).
Editorial
Intensive care during the coronavirus epidemic.
Haibo Qiu, Zhaohui Tong, Penglin Ma, Ming Hu, Zhiyong Peng… in Intensive Care Medicine (2020).
Editorial
How to face the novel coronavirus infection during the 2019–2020 epidemic: the experience of Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital.
Lingai Pan, Li Wang, Xiaobo Huang in Intensive Care Medicine (2020).
What’s New in Intensive Care
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infections: practical considerations and management strategy for intensivists.
Bouadma, L., Lescure, F., Lucet, J. et al. in Intensive Care Med (2020).
What’s New in Intensive Care
Novel coronavirus infection during the 2019–2020 epidemic: preparing intensive care units—the experience in Sichuan Province, China.
Xuelian Liao, Bo Wang, Yan Kang in Intensive Care Medicine (2020)
Letter
Challenges and countermeasures for organ donation during the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic: the experience of Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital.
Lingai Pan, Jie Zeng & Hongji Yang. in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Clinical predictors of mortality due to COVID-19 based on an analysis of data of 150 patients from Wuhan, China.
Qiurong Ruan, Kun Yang, Wenxia Wang, Lingyu Jiang & Jianxin Song in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections in China: prevention, control and challenges.
Sheng Zhang, Meng Yuan Diao, Liwei Duan, Zhaofen Lin & Dechang Chen in Intensive Care Medicine (2020)
What’s New in Intensive Care
Critical care crisis and some recommendations during the COVID-19 epidemic in China.
Jianfeng Xie, Zhaohui Tong, Xiangdong Guan, Bin Du, Haibo Qiu & Arthur S. Slutsky in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Imaging changes in severe COVID-19 pneumonia.
Wei Zhang in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Imaging changes of severe COVID-19 pneumonia in advanced stage.
Wei Zhang in Intensive Care Medicine (2020)
Letter
Findings of lung ultrasonography of novel corona virus pneumonia during the 2019–2020 epidemic.
Qian-Yi Peng, Xiao-Ting Wang, Li-Na Zhang in Intensive Care Medicine (2020)
Letter
How to balance acute myocardial infarction and COVID-19: the protocols from Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital
Jie Zeng, Jianxin Huang & Lingai Pan in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Clinical Features and Short-term Outcomes of 18 Patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 in Intensive Care Unit
Jianlei Cao, Xiaoyong Hu, Wenlin Cheng, Lei Yu, Wen-Jun Tu & Qiang Liu in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Understanding the Disease
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as a SARS-CoV-2 receptor: molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutic target
Haibo Zhang, Josef M. Penninger, Yimin Li, Nanshan Zhong & Arthur S. Slutsky in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Identification of a potential mechanism of acute kidney injury during the COVID-19 outbreak: a study based on single-cell transcriptome analysis
Xiu-wu Pan, Da Xu, Hao Zhang, Wang Zhou, Lin-hui Wang & Xin-gang Cui in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Guidelines
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: guidelines on the management of critically ill adults with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Waleed Alhazzani, Morten Hylander Møller, […]Andrew Rhodes in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Editorial
COVID-19 pneumonia: different respiratory treatment for different phenotypes?
Luciano Gattinoni, Davide Chiumello, Pietro Caironi, Mattia Busana, Federica Romitti, Luca Brazzi & Luigi Camporota in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Clinicolaboratory Study of 25 Fatal Cases of COVID-19 in Wuhan
Wen-Jun Tu, Jianlei Cao, Lei Yu, Xiaorong Hu & Qiang Liu in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Thrombotic events in SARS-Cov 2 patients: an urgent call for ultrasound screening. with this final publication link
Guido Tavazzi, Luca Civardi, Luca Caneva, Silvia Mongodi & Francesco Mojoli in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
15-day mortality and associated risk factors for hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: an ambispective observational cohort study
Ke Wang, Zhiguo Zhang, Muqing Yu, Yu Tao & Min Xie in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Time to consider histologic pattern of lung injury to treat critically ill patients with COVID-19 infection
Marie-Christine Copin, Erika Parmentier, Thibault Duburcq, Julien Poissy, Daniel Mathieu & The Lille COVID-19 ICU and Anatomopathology Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Are subpleural consolidations indicators for segmental pulmonary embolism in COVID-19?
Viviane Zotzmann, Corinna N. Lang, Fabian Bamberg, Christoph Bode & Dawid L. Staudacher in Intensive Care Med (2020).
What’s New in Intensive Care
Facing COVID-19 in ICU: vascular dysfunction, thrombosis, and dysregulated inflammation
Daniel E. Leisman, Clifford S. Deutschman & Matthieu Legrand in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
“No dose” lung ultrasound correlation with “low dose” CT scan for early diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia
Gary Duclos, Alexandre Lopez, Marc Leone & Laurent Zieleskiewicz in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original
High risk of thrombosis in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection: a multicenter prospective cohort study
Julie Helms, Charles Tacquard, François Severac, […] & CRICS TRIGGERSEP Group (Clinical Research in Intensive Care and Sepsis Trial Group for Global Evaluation and Research in Sepsis) in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
ICU capacity management during the COVID-19 pandemic using a process simulation
Andres Alban, Stephen E. Chick, Dave A. Dongelmans, Alexander P. J. Vlaar, Danielle Sent & Study Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
IL-6 may be a good biomarker for earlier detection of COVID-19 progressionChangsong Wang, Dongsheng Fei, Xueting Li, Mingyan Zhao & Kaijiang Yu in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Conference Report and Expert Panel
Antimicrobial therapeutic drug monitoring in critically ill adult patients: a Position Paper
Andres Alban, Stephen E. Chick, Dave A. Dongelmans, Alexander P. J. Vlaar, Danielle Sent & Study Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
New device and technique to protect intubation operators against COVID-19
Chaojin Chen, Ning Shen, Xiaoyun Li, Qi Zhang & Ziqing Hei in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Prothrombotic phenotype in COVID-19 severe patients Julie Helms, François Severac, Hamid Merdji, Eduardo Anglés-Cano & Ferhat Meziani in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Understanding the Disease
Understanding pathophysiology of hemostasis disorders in critically ill patients with COVID-19
Bérangère S. Joly, Virginie Siguret & Agnès Veyradier in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Clinical features and development of sepsis in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2: a retrospective analysis of 150 cases outside Wuhan, China
Di Ren, Chao Ren, Ren-qi Yao, Yong-wen Feng & Yong-ming Yao in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
SARS-CoV-2 pulmonary infection revealed by subcutaneous emphysema and pneumomediastinum
Maxime Lacroix, Farouk Graiess, Laurence Monnier-Cholley & Lionel Arrivé in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Understanding the Disease
Simplified immune-dysregulation index: a novel marker predicts 28-day mortality of intensive care patients with COVID-19
Hui Chen, Jun Wang, Nan Su, Xiebing Bao, Yongsheng Li & Jun Jin in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Incidence of pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19
Tatiana Helena Rech, Adriana Muradás Girardi & Marcelo Basso Gazzana in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Stages or phenotypes? A critical look at COVID-19 pathophysiology
Amit Jain & D. John Doyle in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine
Systemic arterial thrombosis and acute mesenteric ischemia in a patient with COVID-19 Eya Azouz, Sisi Yang, Laurence Monnier-Cholley & Lionel Arrivé in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) of the lung reveals multiple areas of microthrombi in a COVID-19 patient
Alice Tee, Adrian Wong, Timothy Yusuff, Deepak Rao & Paul Sidhu in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Transport of critically ill COVID-19 patients
Beena Yousuf, Kandela Swancy Sujatha, Huda alfoudri & Vladisalav Mansurov in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Enhancing intensive care capacity: COVID-19 experience from a Tertiary Center in Israel
Eyal Leshem, Yoram Klein, Yael Haviv, Haim Berkenstadt & Itai M. Pessach in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Lung ultrasonography versus chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a two-centered retrospective comparison study from China
Yong Yang, Yi Huang, Feng Gao, Lijun Yuan, Zhen Wang in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Admission chest CT score predicts 5-day outcome in patients with COVID-19
Elyas Mahdjoub Waqaas Mohammad Antoine Khalil in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Editorial
The baby lung and the COVID-19 era
Luciano Gattinoni, Konrad Meissner, John J. Marini in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Frailty index predicts poor outcome in COVID-19 patients
Giuseppe Bellelli, Paola Rebora, Maria Grazia Valsecchi… in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Spontaneous echo contrast in venous ultrasound of severe COVID-19 patients
Siddharth Dugar, Abhijit Duggal, Akbik Bassel, Mona Soliman in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Clinical phenotypes of critically ill COVID-19 patients
Elie Azoulay Lara Zafrani Sylvie Chevret in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Recognizing and supporting morally injured ICU professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Niek Kok Astrid Hoedemaekers Jelle van Gurp in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Coronavirus disease 2019 as a particular sepsis: a 2-week follow-up of standard immunological parameters in critically ill patients
Guillaume Monneret, Martin Cour, Sébastien Viel, Fabienne Venet & Laurent Argaud in Intensive Care Med (2020).
What’s New in Intensive Care
What’s new in lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic
Giovanni Volpicelli, Alessandro Lamorte, Tomás Villén in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Histological–ultrasonographical correlation of pulmonary involvement in severe COVID-19
Renata Aparecida Almeida Monteiro, Ellen Pierre de Oliveira, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, Marisa Dolhnikoff & Amaro Nunes Duarte-Neto & BIAS – Brazilian Image Autopsy Study Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
What’s New in Intensive Care
Ten things we learned about COVID-19
Maurizio Cecconi Guido Forni Alberto Mantovani in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Rethinking the respiratory paradigm of COVID-19: a ‘hole’ in the argument
Rajkumar Rajendram, Ghulam Abbas Kharal, Naveed Mahmood, Rishi Puri & Mubashar Kharal in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Learning from mistakes during the pandemic: the Lombardy lesson
Alberto Zangrillo Luciano Gattinoni in Intensive Care Med (2020).
What’s New in Intensive Care
COVID-19: 10 things I wished I’d known some months ago
Peter Pickkers, Hans van der Hoeven, Giuseppe Citerio in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
From phenotypes to black holes… and back
Luigi Camporota Davide Chiumello Luciano Gattinoni in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Editorial
How likely are COVID-19 interventions to benefit the sickest patients?
Anders Perner Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan Balasubramanian Venkatesh in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Severe COVID-19 is associated with deep and sustained multifaceted cellular immunosuppression
Robin Jeannet Thomas Daix Bruno François in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Severity of endothelial dysfunction is associated with the occurrence of hemorrhagic complications in COPD patients treated by extracorporeal CO2 removal
Jean-Luc Diehl Jean Loup Augy David M. Smadja in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Hydroxychloroquine pharmacokinetic in COVID-19 critically ill patients: an observational cohort study
Benoit Painvin, Pauline Guillot, Marie-Clémence Verdier… in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Narrative Review
Inhalational volatile-based sedation for COVID-19 pneumonia and ARDS
Angela Jerath, Niall D. Ferguson & Brian H. Cuthbertson in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Narrative Review
Acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with COVID-19
Paul Gabarre, Guillaume Dumas, Thibault Dupont, Michael Darmon, Elie Azoulay & Lara Zafrani in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Less is More in Intensive Care
ICU beds: less is more? Not sure
Jason Phua, Madiha Hashmi & Rashan Haniffa in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Yesterday heroes, today plague doctors: the dark side of celebration
Luca Cabrini, Giacomo Grasselli, Maurizio Cecconi in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
The negative impact of comorbidities on the disease course of COVID-19
Noémi Zádori, Szilárd Váncsa, Nelli Farkas, Péter Hegyi, Bálint Erőss & on behalf of the KETLAK Study Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Rapidly scalable mechanical ventilator for the COVID-19 pandemic
Albert H. Kwon, Alexander H. Slocum Jr, Dirk Varelmann, Christoph G. S. Nabzdyk & on behalf of the MIT E-Vent Team in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
SARS-CoV-2 viral loads and serum IgA/IgG immune responses in critically ill COVID-19 patients
Slim Fourati, Sophie Hue, Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, Armand Mekontso-Dessap & Nicolas de Prost in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Between-centre differences for COVID-19 ICU mortality from early data in England
Zhaozhi Qian, Ahmed M. Alaa, Mihaela van der Schaar & Ari Ercole in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
A multicenter national survey of children with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to Spanish Pediatric Intensive Care Units
Rafael González Cortés, Alberto García-Salido, David Roca Pascual, María Slöcker Barrio, Juan Carlos de Carlos Vicente & SECIP Study Group on SARS-CoV-2 in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Pericyte alteration sheds light on micro-vasculopathy in COVID-19 infection
Nathalie Cardot-Leccia, Thomas Hubiche, Jean Dellamonica, Fanny Burel-Vandenbos & Thierry Passeron in Intensive Care Med (2020).
From the Inside
Doctor–patient relationship at the time of COVID-19: travel notes
Fabrizio Vallelonga & Fabrizio Elia in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Rethinking the post-COVID-19 pandemic hospital: more ICU beds or smart monitoring on the wards?
Frederic Michard, Bernd Saugel & Benoit Vallet in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Editorial
Critical care journals during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and responsibilities
Giuseppe Citerio, Jan Bakker, Laurent Brochard, Timothy G. Buchman, Samir Jaber, Peter J. Mazzone, Jean-Louis Teboul, Jean-Louis Vincent & Elie Azoulay in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Admission chest CT score predicts 5-day outcome in patients with COVID-19
Elyas Mahdjoub, Waqaas Mohammad, Thomas Lefevre, Marie-Pierre Debray, Antoine Khalil & Study Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Narrative Review
Emerging pharmacological therapies for ARDS: COVID-19 and beyond
Shahd Horie, Bairbre McNicholas, Emanuele Rezoagli, Tài Pham, Ger Curley, Danny McAuley, Cecilia O’Kane, Alistair Nichol, Claudia dos Santos, Patricia R. M. Rocco, Giacomo Bellani & John G. Laffey in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Understanding the Disease
Pulmonary immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 infection: harmful or not?
A. Guillon, P. S. Hiemstra & M. Si-Tahar in Intensive Care Med (2020).
From the Inside
Travelling to hell and back
Massimiliano Polastri in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Prediction of outcome of nasal high flow use during COVID-19-related acute hypoxemic respiratory failure
Noémie Zucman, Jimmy Mullaert, Damien Roux, Oriol Roca, Jean-Damien Ricard & Contributors in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Understanding the Disease
Pulmonary immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 infection: harmful or not?
A. Guillon, P. S. Hiemstra & M. Si-Tahar in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Serum antibody response in critically ill patients with COVID-19
Alban Longchamp, Justine Longchamp, Antony Croxatto, Gilbert Greub, Bienvenido Sanchez, Julie Delaloye & on behalf of the Study Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Efficacy of early prone position for COVID-19 patients with severe hypoxia: a single-center prospective cohort study
Xuefeng Zang, Qian Wang, Hua Zhou, Sanhong Liu, Xinying Xue COVID-19 Early Prone Position Study Group in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Early bacterial co-infection in ARDS related to COVID-19
Louis Kreitmann, Céline Monard, Olivier Dauwalder, Marie Simon & Laurent Argaud in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Narrative Review
Emerging pharmacological therapies for ARDS: COVID-19 and beyond
Shahd Horie, Bairbre McNicholas, Emanuele Rezoagli, Tài Pham, Ger Curley, Danny McAuley, Cecilia O’Kane, Alistair Nichol, Claudia dos Santos, Patricia R. M. Rocco, Giacomo Bellani & John G. Laffey in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Role of frailty in COVID-19 patients
Chia Siang Kow & Syed Shahzad Hasan in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Rapid Practice Guidelines
Managing ICU surge during the COVID-19 crisis: rapid guidelines
Shadman Aziz, Yaseen M. Arabi, Waleed Alhazzani, Laura Evans, Giuseppe Citerio, Katherine Fischkoff, Jorge Salluh, Geert Meyfroidt, Fayez Alshamsi, Simon Oczkowski, Elie Azoulay, Amy Price, Lisa Burry, Amy Dzierba, Andrew Benintende, Jill Morgan, Giacomo Grasselli, Andrew Rhodes, Morten H. Møller, Larry Chu, Shelly Schwedhelm, John J. Lowe, Du Bin & Michael D. Christian in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original
Clinical features, ventilatory management, and outcome of ARDS caused by COVID-19 are similar to other causes of ARDS
Carlos Ferrando, Fernando Suarez-Sipmann, Ricard Mellado-Artigas, María Hernández, Alfredo Gea, Egoitz Arruti, César Aldecoa, Graciela Martínez-Pallí, Miguel A. Martínez-González, Arthur S. Slutsky, Jesús Villar on behalf of the COVID-19 Spanish ICU Network in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Editorial
Integrating the evidence: confronting the COVID-19 elephant
John J. Marini, R. Phillip Dellinger, Daniel Brodie in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original
Comparative study of lung ultrasound and chest computed tomography scan in the assessment of severity of confirmed COVID-19 pneumonia
Laurent Zieleskiewicz, Thibaut Markarian, Alexandre Lopez, Chloé Taguet, Neyla Mohammedi, Mohamed Boucekine, Karine Baumstarck, Guillaume Besch, Gautier Mathon, Gary Duclos, Lionel Bouvet, Pierre Michelet, Bernard Allaouchiche, Kathia Chaumoître, Mathieu Di Bisceglie, Marc Leone , for the AZUREA Network in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original
Increased mortality in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted within seven days of disease onset
Elie Azoulay, Muriel Fartoukh, Michael Darmon, Guillaume Géri, Guillaume Voiriot, Thibault Dupont, Lara Zafrani, Lola Girodias, Vincent Labbé, Martin Dres, Alexandra Beurton, Antoine Vieillard-Baron & Alexandre Demoule in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Apoptosis and pericyte loss in alveolar capillaries in COVID-19 infection: choice of markers matters
Amit Jain, D. John Doyle in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
The prevalence, risk factors and outcome of cardiac dysfunction in hospitalized patients with COVID-19
Yuman Li, He Li, Meng Li, Li Zhang, Mingxing Xie in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
The role of frailty in COVID-19 patients
Giuseppe Bellelli, Paola Rebora, Giuseppe Citerio in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Monitoring of high-flow nasal cannula for SARS-CoV-2 severe pneumonia: less is more, better look at respiratory rate
Damien Blez, Anne Soulier, Francis Bonnet, Etienne Gayat & Marc Garnier in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Physiological dead space ventilation, disease severity and outcome in ventilated patients with hypoxaemic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019
Francesco Vasques, Barnaby Sanderson, Federico Formenti, Manu Shankar-Hari & Luigi Camporota in Intensive Care Med (2020).
From the Inside
Moral Distress In The Intensive Care Unit During The Pandemic: The Burden Of Dying Alone
Constantinos Kanaris in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Ensuring editorial continuity and quality of science during the COVID-19 storm: the ICM experience
Thomas Bein, Alessia Vargiolu & the ICM Editorial Board in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of critically ill patients with novel coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) in China: a retrospective multicenter study
Jianfeng Xie, Wenjuan Wu, Shusheng Li, Yu Hu, Ming Hu, Jinxiu Li, Yi Yang, Tingrong Huang, Kun Zheng, Yishan Wang, Hanyujie Kang, Yingzi Huang, Li Jiang, Wei Zhang, Ming Zhong, Ling Sang, Xia Zheng, Chun Pan, Ruiqiang Zheng, Xuyan Li, Zhaohui Tong, Haibo Qiu & Bin Du in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Early prone position for COVID-19 patients with severe hypoxia: reduces the mortality but increases the intubation risk?
Aline Almeida GulartIsabela Julia Cristiana Santos Silva in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Editorial
Lung ultrasonography as an alternative to chest computed tomography in COVID-19 pneumonia?
Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Alberto Goffi & Paul Mayo in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Apoptosis and pericyte loss in alveolar capillaries in COVID-19 infection: choice of markers matters. Author’s reply
Fanny Burel-Vandenbos, Nathalie Cardot-Leccia & Thierry Passeron in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Hemodynamic response to prone ventilation in COVID-19 patients assessed with 3D transesophageal echocardiography
Bruno Evrard, Marine Goudelin, Anne-Laure Fedou & Philippe Vignon in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original
Lung ultrasound predicts clinical course and outcomes in COVID-19 patients
Yael Lichter, Yan Topilsky, Philippe Taieb, Ariel Banai, Aviram Hochstadt, Ilan Merdler, Amir Gal Oz, Jacob Vine, Or Goren, Barak Cohen, Orly Sapir, Yoav Granot, Tomer Mann, Shirley Friedman, Yoel Angel, Nimrod Adi, Michal Laufer-Perl, Merav Ingbir, Yaron Arbel, Idit Matot & Yishay Szekely in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Pathological brain CT scans in severe COVID-19 ICU patients
Antonella Castellano, Nicoletta Anzalone, Silvia Pontesilli, Evgeny Fominskiy & Andrea Falini in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Original
Access to intensive care in 14 European countries: a spatial analysis of intensive care need and capacity in the light of COVID-19
Jan Bauer, Dörthe Brüggmann, Doris Klingelhöfer, Werner Maier, Lars Schwettmann, Daniel J. Weiss & David A. Groneberg in Intensive Care Med (2020).
From the Inside
Searching for humanity in the time of COVID
Suman Tandon, John Medamana & J. David Roccaforte in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Understanding the Disease
Bacterial and fungal superinfections in critically ill patients with COVID-19
Matteo Bassetti, Marin H. Kollef & Jean-Francois Timsit in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Correspondence
Critically ill patients with COVID-19: are they hemodynamically unstable and do we know why?
Frederic Michard & Antoine Vieillard-Baron in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Imaging in Intensive Care Medicin
Direct evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in gut endothelium
Klaus Stahl, Jan Hinrich Bräsen, Marius M. Hoeper & Sascha David in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
The pooled prevalence of pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19
Li Shi, Jie Xu, Guangcai Duan, Haiyan Yang & Yadong Wang in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Editorial
How severe COVID-19 infection is changing ARDS management
Niall D. Ferguson, Tài Pham & Michelle Ng Gon in Intensive Care Med (2020).
Letter
Intensive care unit acquired muscle weakness in COVID-19 patient
Nathalie Van Aerde, Greet Van den Berghe, Alexander Wilmer, Rik Gosselink, Greet Hermans & COVID-19 Consortium in Intensive Care Med (2020).
RESEARCH
PPE SAFE
Personal Protective Equipment and healthcare worker Safety in the COVID-19 Era (The PPE-SAFE survey).
The survey is designed to understand your current situation. The survey is anonymous, it takes less than 10 minutes and can be completed from a cell phone or computer.
This survey is endorsed by ESICM – the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and ESCMID ESGCIP and the Società Italiana di Anestesia Analgesia Rianimazione e Terapia Intensiva (SIAARTI).
This survey is aimed at ICU Health Care Workers directly involved in the clinical management of COVID-19 patients.
SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Survey on Management of Resources & Patients
ESICM has endorsed an important survey, which aims to compile data about the management of COVID-19 patients and resources during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
This survey was circulated by the Society to its international intensive care community of physicians, nurses and other allied health professionals for completion.
Please assist this essential research by providing your input. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
UNITE – COVID-19 Study
COVID-19 is expected to be a challenge in ICUs globally until a safe and effective vaccine is found. Efforts to study the disease are paramount in order to advance our understanding of the disease, as well as improve treatment options. Although many registries are currently including patients, few of them focus on ICU patients, their specific treatments and newly-observed complications and challenges.
This one-day multi-centre, international anonymised point prevalence study is designed to discover more about the burden of COVID-19 in ICUs around the world, including regional differences, the current management of critically ill patients with COVID-19, variability in treatment and clinical characteristics and outcomes.
This study is endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
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