Global Current Practices of Ventilatory Support Management in COVID-19 Patients: An International Survey.
Jaber Saud AlqahtaniRenata Gonçalves MendesAbdulelah Mastour AldhahirDaniel RowleyMohammed D AlAhmariGeorge NtoumenopoulosSaeed Mardy AlghamdiJithin K SreedharanYousef S AldabayanTope OyeladeAhmed Mansour AlrajehCarlo OlivieriMaher AlQuaimiJerome SullivanMohammed A AlmeshariAntonio Esquinas RodriguezPublished in: Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare (2020)
Our results show that general clinical practices involving ventilatory support were highly heterogeneous, with limited use of standard protocols and most frontline clinicians depending on isolated and varied management guidelines. We found increased staff workload, lack of trained staff and shortage of PPE to be the main limiting factors affecting global COVID-19 ventilatory support management.