Essential care of critical illness must not be forgotten in the COVID-19 pandemic

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30793-5

. 2020 Apr 18;395(10232):1253-1254.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30793-5. Epub 2020 Apr 1.

Essential care of critical illness must not be forgotten in the COVID-19 pandemic

Tim Baker¹, Carl Otto Schell², Dan Brun Petersen³, Hendry Sawe⁴, Karima Khalid⁵, Samson Mndolo⁶, Jamie Rylance⁷, Daniel F McAuley⁸, Nobhojit Roy⁹, John Marshall¹⁰, Lee Wallis¹¹, Elizabeth Molyneux¹²

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¹ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: tim.baker@ki.se.
² Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Clinical Research Sörmland, Uppsala University, Eskilstuna, Sweden; Department of Internal Medicine, Nyköping Hospital, Sörmland Region, Nyköping, Sweden.
³ Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dodoma, Tanzania; Department of Emergency Medicine, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark.
⁴ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania.
⁵ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania; Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁶ Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁷ Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁸ Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK; Regional Intensive Care Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK.
⁹ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Surgical Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Surgical Care Delivery in LMICs, BARC Hospital (Government of India), Mumbai, India.
¹⁰ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; International Forum for Acute Care Trialists, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹¹ Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
¹² Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi; University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.

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DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30793-5

Essential care of critical illness must not be forgotten in the COVID-19 pandemic

Tim Baker et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 18;395(10232):1253-1254.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30793-5. Epub 2020 Apr 1.

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¹ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: tim.baker@ki.se.
² Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Clinical Research Sörmland, Uppsala University, Eskilstuna, Sweden; Department of Internal Medicine, Nyköping Hospital, Sörmland Region, Nyköping, Sweden.
³ Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dodoma, Tanzania; Department of Emergency Medicine, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark.
⁴ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania.
⁵ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania; Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁶ Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁷ Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi.
⁸ Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK; Regional Intensive Care Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK.
⁹ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Surgical Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Surgical Care Delivery in LMICs, BARC Hospital (Government of India), Mumbai, India.
¹⁰ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; International Forum for Acute Care Trialists, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹¹ Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
¹² Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi; University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.

PMID: 32246914
PMCID: PMC7270584
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30793-5

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[1] Wu Z, McGoogan JM. Characteristics of and important lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China: Summary of a report of 72314 cases from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA. 2020 doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.2648. published online Feb 25. - DOI - PubMed

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[7] Hopman J, Allegranzi B, Mehtar S. Managing COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. JAMA. 2020 doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.4169. published online March 17. - DOI - PubMed

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[10] Schell CO, Gerdin Wärnberg M, Hvarfner A. The global need for essential emergency and critical care. Crit Care. 2018;22:284. - PMC - PubMed

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