Navigating shifting waters: rapid response to change in the era of COVID-19

Douglas F Johnson^{1

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3}, Daniel P Steinfort³, Benjamin Cowie^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of General Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Editorial

Douglas F Johnson et al. Intern Med J. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul;50(7):786-790.

doi: 10.1111/imj.14921.

Douglas F Johnson^{1

2

3}, Daniel P Steinfort³, Benjamin Cowie^{2

3

4}

¹ Department of General Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
² Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Exhaled air dispersion during noninvasive ventilation via helmets and a total facemask.
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Exhaled air dispersion during high-flow nasal cannula therapy versus CPAP via different masks.
Hui DS, Chow BK, Lo T, Tsang OTY, Ko FW, Ng SS, Gin T, Chan MTV. Hui DS, et al. Eur Respir J. 2019 Apr 11;53(4):1802339. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02339-2018. Print 2019 Apr. Eur Respir J. 2019. PMID: 30705129

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