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A focus on: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Intensive Care Resources

Intensive Care - Coronavirus

Portal - SURGE Critical Care courses for Registered Nurses - Critical Care Education Services and Medcast

Provides education for Registered Nurses about the necessary minimum knowledge and skills required to work in High Dependency or Critical Care settings, such as Intensive Care Units (ICU).  The education is available online and builds on previous knowledge, skills and experience in preparation for transitioning to High Dependency Units (HDU) and Critical Care wards.

Guidelines - COVID-19 Resources for Critical Care Professionals - ANZICS

Portal - Critical Care Surge response Tool - An Excel-Based Model for Helping Hospitals Respond to the COVID-19 - Crisis RAND Corporation

Examines a range of strategies for creating critical care surge capacity in the nation's hospitals. As a part of the project, they developed this user-friendly, Microsoft Excel–based tool that allows decisionmakers at all levels — hospitals, health care systems, states, regions — to estimate current critical care capacity and rapidly explore strategies for increasing it.

Guideline - Clinical guide for the management of critical care patients during the coronavirus pandemic - NHS England

Specialty guide for patient management during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Clinical Reviews - Cochrane Special Collections: Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care - Cochrane Library

Portal - Information, guidance and resources supporting the understanding and management of Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive Care Society, Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Working in collaboration, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, the Intensive Care Society and the Association of Anaesthetists are urgently reviewing and revising clinical guidance to provide the UK intensive care and anaesthetic community with up-to-date clinical information, guidance and resources needed to better understand and manage COVID-19.

Article - Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID-19 adult patient group - MJA 1 May 2020

Abstract: Introduction: On 11 March 2020, this statement was planned to provide clinical guidance and aid staff preparation for the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia and New Zealand. It has been widely endorsed by relevant specialty colleges and societies.

Guideline - Clinical guide for the use of acute non-invasive ventilation in adult patients hospitalised with suspected or confirmed coronavirus during the coronavirus pandemic - NHS England
Evidence Summaries - Clinical effectiveness - Information for clinicians - UpToDate
Article - Outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to Australian intensive care units during the early phase of the pandemic MJA Sept 2020 - New

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Intensive Care