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This review article provides ED clinicians with recommendations for the evaluation and management of patients presenting with suspected COVID-19. Care for potentially infected patients in the emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic requires significant consideration, as the virus is primarily Read More

This modeling study describes a publicly available system designed for hospital operations leaders that can inform preparations for capacity strain under the COVID-19 pandemic. This study used a Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the timing of surges for clinical resources, Read More

This case series showed convalescent plasma was well tolerated and has potential to improve the clinical outcomes of severe COVID-19 cases. The optimal dose and timing, as well as the true clinical benefit, needs further study in larger well-controlled trials. Read More

This review discussed how clinical decision scores can be used to make decisions about ICU care in the COVID-19 pandemic and tests three scores in the current environment. It’s very possible that the COVID-19 pandemic may overwhelm healthcare resources in Read More

This review article details important considerations in providing critical care to patients with COVID-19. Initial reports gave us reason to believe that about 5% of proven infections required critical care. Given how infectious the virus is, critical care will be Read More

This report details a decision tree algorithm that may help guide decisions for protecting health care workers during surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the risk of infection with COVID-19 to healthcare workers, a team developed an institutional algorithm to Read More

This systematic review and meta-analysis found that low certainty evidence suggests that medical masks and N95 respirators offer similar protection against viral respiratory infection in health care workers conducting non-aerosol generating care. Preservation of N95 respirators for high-risk, aerosol-generating procedures Read More

This report describes Korea’s experience with specialized community treatment centers for COVID, which may be a very cost-effective and resource-saving strategy in managing massive cases of COVID-19. In less than 6 weeks Korea went from one confirmed patient to more Read More

This report details a tiered plan for surgical departments on how to plan for and deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. We have had a national emergency in the United States since March 13th because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coping with Read More

This forthcoming medical journal article, authored by a group of acute care surgeons with diverse expertise in disaster management and public health, outlines a tiered approach to surgical department planning, including deployment of Acute Care Surgeons (ACS), utilization of infrastructure Read More