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Published on: September 24, 2020
Supportive Care in Patients with Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019
Daniel A Sweeney1, Atul Malhotra1
1Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine and Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9300 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037-7381, USA.
Abstract:
Specific therapies for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have limited efficacy in the event a patient worsens clinically and requires admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Thus, providing quality supportive care is essential to the overall management of patients with critical COVID-19. Patients with respiratory failure not requiring intubation should be supported with noninvasive positive pressure ventilation, continuous positive airway pressure, or high flow oxygenation. Use of these respiratory modalities may prevent patients from subsequently requiring intubation. Basic components of supportive care for the critically ill should be applied equally to patients with COVID-19 in the ICU.
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