Critical Care Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19: The Experience From Guangdong Province, China

Frontiers in Public Health

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Xiaoqing Liu¹  Yonghao Xu¹  Zhiheng Xu¹  Yuanda Xu¹  Weiqun He¹  Yongbo Huang¹  Nanshan Zhong¹  Tiehe Qin²  Yimin Li¹ 

[1] State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University;Guangdong Provincial Geriatrics Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital

关键词: ICU–intensive care unit;    COVID-19;    Guangdong Province;    mortality;    critical response;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.576528

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In December 2019, human infection with a novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, was confirmed in Wuhan, China, and spread rapidly beyond Wuhan and around the world. By 7 May 2020, a total of 84,409 patients were infected in mainland China, with 4,643 deaths, according to a Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention report. Recent studies reported that critically ill patients were presented with high mortality. However, the clinical experiences of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have not been described in Guangdong Province, where by 7 May 2020, 1,589 people had been confirmed as having COVID-19 but with a very low mortality of 8 death (0.5%). Here, we describe the experience of critical care response to the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in Guangdong Province in the following points: Early intervention by the government, Establishment of a Multidisciplinary Working Group, Prompt intensive care interventions, Adequate ICU beds and Human resource in ICU, Infection control practices.

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