SAGES will compile helpful links for surgeons and the medical community on this page. Please bookmark it and return often for updates.
- Society for Critical Care Medicine – Critical Care for Non-ICU Clinicians
- VIDEO: Making Your Own Reusable Elastomeric Respirator For Use During Covid-19 Viral Pandemic N95 Shortage
- REBELEM: Simplifying Mechanical Ventilation – Part I: Types of Breaths
- AAST: Mechanical Ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit
- Annals of Thoracic Medicine: Rapid shallow breathing index
- VIDEO: Behind the Knife Podcast: Ventilators – Simplified By Dr. Patrick Georgoff
- NIH NHLBI ARDS Clinical Network: Mechanical Ventilation Protocol Summary
- #CoVisuals: Visual guides for society-based COVID-19 Recommendations
- Weill-Cornell Medicine | New York Presbyterian | Columbia – Updated Recommendations for Conservation and Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Other Supplies March 20, 2020
- CDC – Sequence for Putting on PPE
- Joint GI Society Recommendations
- Critical Care and COVID-19
- AIS Channel COVID-19 Videos
- ACS COVID-19 Guidelines for Triage of Emergency General Surgery Patients
- Protecting Surgical Teams During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- COVID-19 Guidelines for Triage of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients
- Minimally invasive surgery and the novel coronavirus outbreak: lessons learned in China and Italy
- Conversations about re-using N-95 masks: Stanford study: Summarizes evidence, and the results of testing by their materials science lab
- Conversations about re-using N-95 masks: UV Light study: 2015 study out of West Virginia
- Conversations about re-using N-95 masks: Cloth Masks Don’t Work: Vietnamese trial
More to come…
Sources:
SAGES Committees, Task Forces, Social Media.