1. Respiratory support in patients with COVID-19 (outside intensive care unit). A position paper of the Respiratory Support and Chronic Care Group of the French Society of Respiratory Diseases
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C. Rabec, J. Gonzalez-Bermejo, M. Mercy, L. Grassion, S. Pontier, M. Patout, R. Luque, C. Delafosse, C. Raherison-Semjen, B. Maître, L. Duthoit, A. Mendoza, L. Jacquin, J.C. Borel, P. Cervantes, J.-P. Janssens, J.-F. Chabot, C. Morelot-Panzini, and D. Jaffuel
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Emergency Medical Services ,Critical Care ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Severity of Illness Index ,Article ,law.invention ,law ,Oxygen therapy ,medicine ,Emergency medical services ,Pulmonary Medicine ,Humans ,Continuous positive airway pressure ,Intensive care medicine ,Pandemics ,Societies, Medical ,Mechanical ventilation ,Chronic care ,Respiratory Distress Syndrome ,Continuous Positive Airway Pressure ,business.industry ,Nebulizers and Vaporizers ,Oxygen Inhalation Therapy ,COVID-19 ,Respiration Disorders ,Intensive care unit ,Respiration, Artificial ,Intensive Care Units ,Acute Disease ,Chronic Disease ,Breathing ,France ,business - Abstract
With first cases noted towards the end of 2019 in China, COVID-19 infection was rapidly become a devastating pandemic. Even if most patients present with a mild to moderate form of the disease, the estimated prevalence of COVID-19-related severe acute respiratory failure (ARF) is 15-20% and 2-12% needed intubation and mechanical ventilation. In addition to mechanical ventilation some other techniques of respiratory support could be used in some forms of COVID-19 related ARF. This position paper of the Respiratory Support and Chronic Care Group of the French Society of Respiratory Diseases is intended to help respiratory clinicians involved in care of COVID-19 pandemic in the rational use of non-invasive techniques such as oxygen therapy, CPAP, non-invasive ventilation and high flow oxygen therapy in managing patients outside intensive care unit (ICU). The aims are: (1) to focus both on the place of each technique and in describing practical tips (types of devices and circuit assemblies) aimed to limit the risk of caregivers when using those techniques at high risk spreading of viral particles; (2) to propose a step-by-step strategy to manage ARF outside ICU.
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- 2020
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