Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 Panel

ABSTRACT

In late 2019, a new coronavirus, called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, led to an epidemic of acute respiratory syndrome and subsequently to a pandemic. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 expert group developed 54 urgent statements on the management of COVID-19 in the intensive care unit, of which 4 are best practice statements, 9 are strong recommendations, and 35 are weak recommendations. The authors did not undertake a new systematic prioritization of results but used the current work of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guideline 2020 and expert opinion. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign COVID-19 Panel is divided into 4 groups 1) infection control and testing identification of aerosol-generating proce-dures, healthcare workers perform aerosol-generating procedures in a negative pressure room, using appropriate respiratory masks (N95 respirators, FFP2) and protective equipment (gloves, gown, eye protection, etc.);2) laboratory monitoring and specimens each patient admitted to the intensive care unit with signs of respiratory infection should be considered as potentially infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome, and samples from the lower airways should be obtained after intubation and ventilation for diagnostic testing;3) hemodynamic support;4) respiratory support. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Deve-lopment approach was used to assess the quality of evidence. The quality of evidence was assessed as high, moderate, low and very low. Online software was used — GDT (http//gdt.guidelinede-velopment.org) to generate the evidence profiles. © 2022, Zaslavsky Publishing House. All rights reserved.