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Review
. 2021 Apr 26;9(12):2696-2702.
doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i12.2696.

Standardization of critical care management of non-critically ill patients with COVID-19

Chang-Song Wang  1 , Yang Gao  2 , Kai Kang  2 , Dong-Sheng Fei  2 , Xiang-Lin Meng  2 , Hai-Tao Liu  1 , Yun-Peng Luo  2 , Wei Yang  2 , Qing-Qing Dai  3 , Yan Gao  4 , Ming-Yan Zhao  2 , Kai-Jiang Yu  2
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Review

Standardization of critical care management of non-critically ill patients with COVID-19

Chang-Song Wang et al. World J Clin Cases. .

Abstract

The large global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has seriously endangered the health care system in China and globally. The sudden surge of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection has revealed the shortage of critical care medicine resources and intensivists. Currently, the management of non-critically ill patients with COVID-19 is performed mostly by non-intensive care unit (ICU) physicians, who lack the required professional knowledge, training, and practice in critical care medicine, especially in terms of continuous monitoring of the respiratory function, intervention, and feedback on treatment effects. This clinical problem needs an urgent solution. Therefore, here, we propose a series of clinical strategies for non-ICU physicians aimed at the standardization of the management of non-critically ill patients with COVID-19 from the perspective of critical care medicine. Isolation management is performed to facilitate the implementation of hierarchical monitoring and intervention to ensure the reasonable distribution of scarce critical care medical resources and intensivists, highlight the key patients, timely detection of disease progression, and early and appropriate intervention and organ function support, and thus improve the prognosis. Different management objectives are also set based on the high-risk factors and the severity of patients with COVID-19. The approaches suggested herein will facilitate the timely detection of disease progression, and thus ensure the provision of early and appropriate intervention and organ function support, which will eventually improve the prognosis.

Keywords: COVID-19; Different management objectives; Hierarchical monitoring and intervention; Isolation management; Non-critically ill patients; SARS-CoV-2 infection; Standardized management.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Figures

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Figure 1
Routine bed layout for severe patients with coronavirus disease 2019 or mild and moderate coronavirus disease 2019 patients with high-risk factors.
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Figure 2
Form to facilitate the understanding of the transformation of patient' condition. COVID-19: Coronavirus disease 2019.
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