Technologies to Optimize the Care of Severe COVID-19 Patients for Health Care Providers Challenged by Limited Resources.

ABSTRACT: Health care systems are belligerently responding to the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a specific condition, whose distinctive features are severe hypoxemia associated with (>50% of cases) normal respiratory system compliance. When a patient requires intubation and invasive ventilation, the outcome is poor, and the length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) is usually 2 or 3 weeks. In this article, the authors review several technological devices, which could support health care providers at the bedside to optimize the care for COVID-19 patients who are sedated, paralyzed, and ventilated. Particular attention is provided to the use of videolaryngoscopes (VL) because these can assist anesthetists to perform a

SUBMITTER: Rubulotta F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7258840 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature