A Care Delivery Model of Temporary Transfer of Medical Workers and Equipment to Confine a Pandemic

Frontiers in Medicine

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Han Zhang¹  Danhui Yang¹  Min Yang¹  Liucun Li¹  Hong Luo¹  Ata Murat Kaynar⁴ 

[1] Department of Respiratory and Critical Care, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University;Research Unit of Respiratory Disease, Central South University;Hunan Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Respiratory Disease;Clinical Research, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States;Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, United States

关键词: COVID-19;    SARS-CoV-2;    medical team delivery;    respiratory care;    pandemic;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmed.2020.561864

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Since December 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) virus reached pandemic levels (1). As of March 1, 2020, there are 79,968 confirmed cases in China, and among these confirmed cases, 2,873 deaths occurred (2). Once the COVID-19 develops to critical illness, the mortality rate will rise drastically (3, 4). Among critically ill COVID-19 patients, 63.5% were treated with high-flow nasal cannula though controversial, 71% with mechanical ventilation, 11.5% with prone position ventilation, 11.5% with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and 17% with continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) at Wuhan Jin Yin-tan hospital (Wuhan, China) resulting in an unprecedented surge in critical care resource utilization (4). Similarly, most countries encountered this challenge since the outbreak of COVID-19 throughout the world, resulting in an urgent need of sharing the successful anti-plague strategies between different countries.

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