UCHealth COVID-19 Pharmacotherapy Guidance

This community developed resource is a quick reference guide for utlization of various COVID-19 pharmacotherapies.

Best Practices for Managing Staff Shortages

During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems have been overwhelmed with patients, leading to clinician burnout and staffing issues. In this free webcast, learn how leaders from various intensive care units are managing staff shortages Webcast Recorded on Thursday, October 7, 2021. This webcast is cosponsored by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

COVID-19: Lessons from the Frontline

COVID-19 case presentation from the team at Mayo Clinic - Florida that brings together many of the STOP-VIRUS Collaborative lessons learned over the course of the past 6 months.

Supporting Our Community: Well Being, Moral Distress, and Burnout

Erin Strong, BSN, RN, CCRN from the University of Pennsylvania, Amanda Frary, MSN, RN; Sydney O'Brien, RRT and Amber Dewey, RRT from Valleywise Health focus on the bedside experience during the Pandemic.  Karen Korzick, MD from Geisinger Medical Center, discusses how these experiences can lead to moral distress, and place providers at risk for burnout. Closing the discussion, Karen Korzick, MD, Elly Fitzpatrick, DNP, RN, from Thomas Jefferson University, and Greg Martin, MD, from Emory University and current SCCM President, talk about team, unit, and organizational solutions that have been attempted to prevent, combat burnout.

Curriculum Topic: Shared Decision-Making and End-of-Life Care

Challenges and Some of the Potential Solutions to Delivering Patient and Family Centered Care

The Patient Perspective (Ken Burkhom)
What the Bedside Nurse Sees (Erin Strong)
How the ICU Team Adapts (Jackie Guiliani, Preeti John)
Addressing the Repercussions of “Social Distancing”
Requests for inappropriate care, managing conflict (Alex Kon)
Shared decision making, care at the end of life & Social justice considerations (Giora Netzer)
Impact of contingency, crisis operations on communication challenges (Mary Faith Marshall)

Curriculum Topic: Shared Decision-Making and End-of-Life Care

Managing Health Disparities in the Setting of Triage Decisions

Julia F. Taylor, MD, MA, HEC-C from the University of Virginia presents on the topic of Health Disparities; Katherine Fischkoff, MD from Columbia University presents on Resource Allocation; and Erin S. DeMartino, MD from Mayo Clinic presents on Pandemic Planning. 

Curriculum Topic: Shared Decision-Making and End-of-Life Care

COVID Associated Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

Dr. Marlies Ostermann from Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Hospital in London, UK, who covered the evaluation and management of acute kidney injury in patients with COVID-19, including a review of the COVID ADQI Work Group AKI consensus report. 

Curriculum Topic: Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acute Kidney Injury

Arterial Ischemia in COVID-19; Is Ischemic Stroke More Prevalent with COVID?

Dr. Daniel Temas from Prisma Health will present a case study presentation.  Paul Nyquist, MD,  from MPH, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will provide an update on Stroke literature related to COVID and speak to thrombosis and Ischemic stroke impact. 

Curriculum Topic: Cardiovascular Complications: Venous Thromboembolism, Myocarditis, and Shock

Interleukin-6 in Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019, a Driver of Lung Inflammation of Systemic Origin?

From Critical Care Explorations. In this Brief Report the authors examined whether interleukin-6 in critical coronavirus disease 2019 is higher in arterial than in central venous blood, as a sign of predominantly local pulmonal rather than systemic interleukin-6 production.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Tracheostomy Candidacy, Ceteris Paribus Assumptions, and Tracking Survivorship Data

From Critical Care Medicine. This Editorial accompanies the article by Angel et. al titled "Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation".