Fri April 03 – 10 Stories of The Day!

1 – Temporary Emergency Guidance to US Stroke Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic – American Heart Association / American Stroke Association

News Release: Interim guidance issued on stroke care during COVID-19 pandemic – American Heart Association

2 – Interim Guidance for Healthcare Providers Caring for Pediatric Patients to Reduce COVID-19 transmission – American Heart Association

News Release: Interim guidance for pediatric resuscitation care to reduce COVID-19 transmission – American Heart Association

Commentary: How to provide emergency cardiovascular care, including CPR, for children with COVID-19 – Cardiovascular Business

3 – Care of patients with liver disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: EASL-ESCMID Position Paper – European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)

News Release: Patients with advanced liver disease and transplant recipients require specific care during COVID-19 – European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)

4 – Covid-19 Does Not Lead to a “Typical” Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

“After considering that, all we can do ventilating these patients is “buying time” with minimum additional damage: the lowest possible PEEP and gentle ventilation. We need to be patient.”

5 – Correlation between universal BCG vaccination policy and reduced morbidity and mortality for COVID-19: an epidemiological study – medRxiv

Commentaries: Universal BCG vaccination and protection against COVID-19: critique of an ecological study – Nature Microbiology Community AND A Vaccine From The 1920s Is Now Being Tested For Use Against The Coronavirus Pandemic – Forbes AND Nations with Mandatory TB Vaccines Show Fewer Coronavirus Deaths

6 – COVID-19: infection prevention and control – Public Health England

7 – COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

• COVID-19 contact tracing apps: 8 privacy questions governments should ask – Imperial College London
• In Germany, High Hopes For New COVID-19 Contact Tracing App That Protects Privacy – NPR
• Covid-19 spreads too fast for traditional contact tracing. New digital tools could help – STAT
• Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing – Science

8 – How Hospitals Can Protect Frontline Healthcare Workers From COVID-19 – Medium

9 – Complete GUIDE to Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Patients – POCUS 101

Related: Proposal for international standardization of the use of lung ultrasound for COVID‐19 patients; a simple, quantitative, reproducible method – Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine AND Findings of lung ultrasonography of novel corona virus pneumonia during the 2019–2020 epidemic – Intensive Care Medicine AND Can Lung US Help Critical Care Clinicians in the Early Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pneumonia? – Radiology AND Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound findings in novel coronavirus disease-19 pnemoniae: a case report and potential applications during COVID-19 outbreak – European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences AND ACEP Guideline on COVID-19: Ultrasound Machine and Transducer Cleaning

10 – Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Updates / 03 April 2020 Edition

03 April 2020 Edition – COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives (several free resources)