Helpful COVID-19 Links

SAGES will compile helpful links for surgeons and the medical community on this page.  Please bookmark it and return often for updates.

The following is intended to provide our members with additional information to help manage surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAGES has not thoroughly reviewed or authenticated the content below and we neither recommend nor endorse any of the information contained in the links.

1. Society for Critical Care Medicine – Critical Care for Non-ICU Clinicians
2. VIDEO: Making Your Own Reusable Elastomeric Respirator For Use During Covid-19 Viral Pandemic N95 Shortage
3. REBELEM: Simplifying Mechanical Ventilation – Part I: Types of Breaths
4. AAST: Mechanical Ventilation in the Intensive Care Unit
5. Annals of Thoracic Medicine: Rapid shallow breathing index
6. VIDEO: Behind the Knife Podcast: Ventilators – Simplified By Dr. Patrick Georgoff
7. NIH NHLBI ARDS Clinical Network: Mechanical Ventilation Protocol Summary
8. #CoVisuals: Visual guides for society-based COVID-19 Recommendations
9. Weill-Cornell Medicine | New York Presbyterian | Columbia – Updated Recommendations for Conservation and Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Other Supplies March 20, 2020
10. CDC – Sequence for Putting on PPE
11. Joint GI Society Recommendations
12. Critical Care and COVID-19
13. AIS Channel COVID-19 Videos
14. ACS COVID-19 Guidelines for Triage of Emergency General Surgery Patients
15. Protecting Surgical Teams During the COVID-19 Outbreak
16. COVID-19 Guidelines for Triage of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients
17. Minimally invasive surgery and the novel coronavirus outbreak: lessons learned in China and Italy
18. Conversations about re-using N-95 masks: JAMA editorial
19. Conversations about re-using N-95 masks: Stanford study: Summarizes evidence, and the results of testing by their materials science lab
20. Conversations about re-using N-95 masks: UV Light study: 2015 study out of West Virginia
21. Conversations about re-using N-95 masks: Cloth Masks Don’t Work: Vietnamese trial
22. Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Singapore) COVID-19 Science Reports
23. Digital screening tool to restart elective surgery during COVID-19 – SeamlessMD

More to come…

Sources:

SAGES Committees, Task Forces, Social Media.