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ICU Management

China-with-the-world-covid-19-experts-dialogues-the-4th-talk-transcript

2020 19 Mar

Q (Prof. Singer):  What do you think about the comorbidities and the age of the patients in the treatment of COVID-19? Is the mortality higher in elderly patients as it is reported from recent papers? A (Prof. Peng):  If the patient has comorbidities, they can be easily infected by COVID-19 and are likely to become severe...Read more

ICU Management

China-with-the-world-covid-19-experts-dialogues-the-2nd-talk-transcript

2020 15 Mar

Q: Starting from the patient admission to the hospital, what is your rule for ventilation? Do you start from HFNC, CPAP, NIV or go directly to intubation and invasive ventilation when the conventional oxygen therapy fails? A: The use of HFNC as well as NIV is very popular among our patients. At the initial stage we didn’t have enough devices,...Read more