Mon March 23 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Guidelines on the Management of Critically Ill Adults with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – Intensive Care Medicine (free PDF)

Infographics: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign Rapid Guidelines on the Management of Critically Ill Adults with COVID-19 (free)

See also: COVID-19: Updates for Critical Care and Emergency Physicians (free resources)

2 – 2nfection Prevention and Control guidance for Long-Term Care Facilities in the context of COVID-19 – World Health Organization (PDF)

Related Study: COVID-19 in a Long-Term Care Facility — King County, Washington, February 27–March 9, 2020 – CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (free)

“Introduction of COVID-19 into a long-term residential care facility in Washington resulted in cases among 81 residents, 34 staff members, and 14 visitors; 23 persons died” (from CDC)

3 – COVID-19 rapid guideline: critical care – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

See also: COVID-19: Updates for Critical Care and Emergency Physicians (free resources)

4 – COVID-19 rapid guideline: dialysis service delivery – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

See also: COVID-19: Updates for Nephrologists (free resources)

5 – COVID-19 rapid guideline: delivery of systemic anticancer treatments – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (free)

See also: COVID-19: Updates for Oncologists & Hematologists (free resources)

6 – Favipiravir versus Arbidol for COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial – medRxiv

7 – Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates – Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford (free)

8 – Position Statement: Loss of sense of smell as marker of COVID-19 infection – ENT-UK

See also: There’s An Unexpected Loss Of Smell And Taste In Coronavirus Patients – Forbes (free) AND If you’ve lost your sense of smell or taste, you could be a ‘hidden carrier’ of the coronavirus – Business Insider (free)

9 – Coronavirus disease 2019: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures – European Journal of Clinical Investigation (free PDF)

Related Opinion Piece: A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data – STAT (free)

Rebuttal 1: We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to start – STAT (free)

Rebuttal 2: A Rebuttal to “A Fiasco in the Making?” – Hilda Bastian (Free)

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 23 March 2020 Edition

23 March 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)