COVID-19 Weekly Briefing: Chloroquine, Nursing Ingenuity, Pediatric Case Projections, More
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April 25, 2020

Strengthen Your Understanding and Practice With Research

Medicine has always required not only critical thinking and interpretation but the ability to convey findings and their importance to the general population. In these times, it has never been more important that we ensure the public is guided by fact and not fiction when dealing with this pandemic. This week's collection of COVID-19 resources provides a round up of evidence-based research and recommendations to make sure you are better-equipped to tackle the outbreak and communicate the latest findings.

 

Thank you for your service, and stay safe.

The latest from Lippincott® Journals

Evidence-based estimates of intensive care admissions, total infected, and projected numbers of severe pediatric cases in 2020

Rehabilitation providers serve as an important link in the continuum of care. It is thus important that rehabilitation providers develop plans to receive large numbers of patients from acute care facilities, possibly directly from the ICU.  

The potential efficacy and established safety of chloroquine in COVID-19 is explored in this article.  

3 strategies are shared to promote dissemination of innovative nursing interventions that will save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

To address ventilator shortages from COVID-19 surges, a novel addition to a previously described solution is discussed in this new article. 

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The rapid evolution of the present COVID-19 situation calls for prompt awareness of the international community. Italy can serve as an example to plan for adequate measures to be taken. 

Practice considerations to optimize outcomes and limit exposure

As the spread of COVID-19 places greater demands on health systems, further triage will be required. Getting this right will be a challenge, and there are several considerations that will need to be taken into account as systems develop long-term strategies for surgical prioritization.

Perspectives around the debate of ethical and moral dilemmas about the use of resuscitation care for in-hospital cardiac arrest and the response of the medical community

What will the legacy of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic be for medical educators and US academic medical center missions?