M Velia Antonini Report of the World Health Organization (WHO)-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019: – major findings about virus, outbreak, transmission dynamics, disease progression/severity, the China response and knowledge gaps; – recommendations in five major areas to inform the ongoing response in China and globally, for countries with imported cases and/or outbreaks of COVID-19, for uninfected … Read more
Characteristics of & main lessons from COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak in China: summary of a report of 72314 cases (data from Chinese CDC), with comparison of COVID-19 with SARS and MERS, and response to the novel Coronavirus epidemic. Here some of the key findings: age: 87%: 30-79 years, 1% respectively 10-19 & <10 years spectrum of … Read more
Recommendations on Extracorporeal Life Support for critically ill patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia from the Chinese Society of Extracorporeal Life Support. Along with the sharp increase in confirmed cases of novel Coronavirus infection, some of the most critically ills will require ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) support. Based on the clinical data related to … Read more
Clinical characteristics of patients with 2019nCoV (now properly defined by World Health Organization (WHO) Covid-19) in these 3 papers. Data extraction on 1,099 patients with laboratory-confirmed #Covid-19 from 552 hospitals in 31 provinces/provincial municipalities through January 29th, 2020. Authors reported 5% of patients admitted to #ICU, 2.18% requiring invasive ventilation, and 1.36% death rate. Extracorporeal … Read more
The World Health Organization has launched a free open access course, the WHO Critical Care Training Short Course for Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), including content on clinical management of patients with a severe acute respiratory infection, intended for clinicians working in ICUs in low and middle-income countries involved in critical care management of adult … Read more
Early recognizing imaging features of novel Coronavirus infection: mandatory for promptly implement treatment/support strategies, but also for isolating case and performing an effective public health monitoring/response; some open access paper have been published on Radiology, starting with a series reviewing chest CT scans of symptomatic patients infected with 2019-nCoV, with emphasis on identifying & characterizing … Read more
Trending topic The WHO is distributing an Interim Guidance document for the “Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when Novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected.” The medical community is closely monitoring the outbreak. The WHO guidance document includes a statement to “consider referral patients with refractory hypoxemia despite lung-protective ventilation. . . in settings … Read more
Need to improve your cannulation skills?? Want to act faster & safer next time you need to implement extracorporeal support? Join the ELSO Cannulation Workshop! This focused course, taught by a ELSO ECMOed Education Committee using realistic cannulation models, will train physicians to safely perform percutaneous #ECLS cannulation. All attendees will learn all aspects of … Read more
The first ELSO ECMOed ECMO education twitter chat has been held few hours ago, involving participants from all Continents: Lots of interesting comments, questions, idea and suggestions have been shared, focused on the target to standardize ECMO education making it globally available & properly train/certify providers. Here, nearly (as feasible) complete transcript of the chat… … Read more
Global ECMO education & agenda for the future: read the ELSO ECMOed Taskforce position paper on Critical Care Medicine at http://bit.ly/ECMOedpospaper & prepare your questions/comments! a dedicated twitter chat under the hashtag #ECMOedPP will be held on Jan 9 2020, with all the ECMOed Workgroups representatives and members! at 9.00 -10.00 pm CST 10.00 – … Read more
Extracorporeal Life Support: The ELSO Red Book, 5th Edition, the leading text book of ECMO combining the expertise of hundreds of international researchers & clinicians, published by the ELSO is also available as eBook!! Do not wait! buy & download your digital copy to have always the Red Book in your pocket, easily accessible as & when needed, also at the bedside!
The ECMO specialist training manual, 4th Edition, covering all aspects of the use of ECLS in all patients from neonates to adults, in patients with cardiac or respiratory dysfunction and with other conditions is now also available as eBook!! Do not wait! buy and download your digital copy to have always this ELSO book in your pocket, easily accessible as needed, also at bedside!
Manual de Entrenamiento para Especialistas en ECMO, 4ª edición en Español! The ECMO Specialist Training Manual, 4th edition now available in Spanish!! both ebook & printed edition El manual de cubre todos los aspectos de las terapias de soporte de ECMO que involucran su aplicación en pacientes, desde recién nacidos hasta adultos. El uso de ECMO en pacientes con disfunción cardíaca o respiratoria y con otras afecciones también está cubierto a profundidad. Esta publicación está escrita pensando en los especialistas en ECMO y como una guía práctica para el uso del ECMO.