Essential ICU drug shortages for COVID-19: what can frontline clinicians do?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, National University Health System, 1E Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, 119228, Singapore. siow_wen_ting@nuhs.edu.sg.
² Department of Pharmacy, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, National University Health System, 1E Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, 119228, Singapore.

Comment

Wen Ting Siow et al. Crit Care. 2020.

. 2020 May 26;24(1):260.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-02971-x.

¹ Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, National University Health System, 1E Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, 119228, Singapore. siow_wen_ting@nuhs.edu.sg.
² Department of Pharmacy, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
³ Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, National University Health System, 1E Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore, 119228, Singapore.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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