COVID-19 Resources From Other Organizations

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Anesthesia Machines, Ventilators and Equipment Maintenance

• FDA COVID-19 Update: FDA Continues to Facilitate Access to Crucial Medical Products, Including Ventilators
• FDA Ventilator Supply Mitigation Strategies: Letter to Health Care Providers
• International Standards Organization: Illustrated Handbook of Ventilator Vocabulary
• Joint Commission Ventilators and Other Respiratory Support 
• Ventilator Training Alliance Video Resources

Clinical Care

• American Academy of Otolaryngology Tracheotomy Recommendations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• American Academy of Pain Medicine publication on Pain Management Best Practices from Multispecialty Organizations during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Public Health Crises
• American Academy of Pediatrics, “Management of Infants Born to Mothers with COVID-19”
  • The use of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and procedure precautions should be dictated by local practices.
• American Heart Association, American Society of Anesthesiologists and American Association for Respiratory Care modules and videos for Oxygenation and Ventilation Management of COVID-19 Patients. 
• American Society of Echocardiography, “Specific Considerations for the Protection of Patients and Echocardiography Service Providers When Performing Perioperative or Periprocedural Transesophageal Echocardiography During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Council on Perioperative Echocardiography Supplement to the Statement of the American Society of Echocardiography"
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and European Society of Regional Anesthesia and Patient Therapy: Practice Recommendations on Neuraxial Anesthesia and Peripheral Nerve Blocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• CDC Interim Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease
• Course on AHA, AAP, ASA, AARC, SOCCA, ACEP Interim Guidance on Resuscitation of COVID-19 Patients
• Hospital Elder Life Program COVID-19 Resources and the Delirium Prevention Toolkit
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): Coronavirus Resources
• Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care:
  • Anesthetic Management of Endovascular Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke During COVID-19 Pandemic 
  • Endovascular Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke
• Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Resources for Smoke & Gas Evacuation During Open Laparoscopic, and Endoscopic Procedures.
• World Health Organization (WHO): Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus infection is suspected

Critical Care Resources

• European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) Practical Recommendations for Critical Care and Anesthesiology Teams Caring for COVID-19 Patients
• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Guidelines on the Management of Critically Ill Adults (PDF) with COVID-19 Guidelines
• Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): COVID-19 ICU Preparedness Checklist
• Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): Free training videos will assist you in preparing for disasters such as pandemic.
  • ICU Microcosm Within Disaster Medical Response
  • Augmenting Critical Care Capacity During a Disaster
  • Disaster Triage and Allocation of Scarce Resources
  • Sustained Mechanical Ventilation Outside Traditional Intensive Care Units

Drug Regulations

• FDA COVID-19 FAQs on: Vaccines, Biologics, Human Tissues, Blood Products, Drugs, Medical Devices, and Tests
• FDA: Temporary Policy for Compounding of Drugs for Hospitalized Patients by Outsourcing Facilities During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
• FDA: Temporary Policy on Repackaging or Combining Propofol Drug Products During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
• National Institutes of Drug on Drug Abuse: Resources for Individuals with Substance Use Disorder
• USP Immediate Public Access to United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary General Chapters Critical to the Development of Vaccines and Antiviral Medicines

Elective Surgery

• American College of Surgeons (ACS) Post-COVID-10 Readiness Checklist for Resuming Surgery
• American College of Surgeons COVID-19: Guidance for Triage of Non-Emergent Surgical Procedures
• ASA and APSF Joint Statement on Non-Urgent Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak (March 17, 2020)
• ASA, ACS and AORN Joint Statement Recommending a Surgical Review Committee for COVID-19-Related Surgical Triage Decision Making (March 24, 2020)
• CMS Adult Elective Surgery and Procedures Recommendations (PDF) (April 7, 2020)
• CMS Recommendations Re-opening Facilities to Provide Non-emergent Non-COVID-19 Healthcare: Phase 1 (April 19, 2020)
• Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) Recommendations for Ambulatory Elective Surgery (PDF) During COVID-19 Pandemic (March 17, 2020)
• Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) Statement on COVID-19 Testing Before Ambulatory Anesthesia (April 30, 2020) 
• Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) Statement on Resuming Ambulatory Anesthesia Care as Our Nation Recovers from COVID-19 (April 18, 2020)

Health and Wellness

• American Board of Anesthesiology COVID-19 Resources on Mental Health
• American Hospital Association COVID-19: Stress and Coping Resources
• Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress COVID-19 Pandemic Response Resources
• Death, Grief, and Funerals in the COVID Age: Optimal strategies for helping people develop new rituals to honor those who die during the COVID-19 era.
• Physician Support Line - a national, free, and confidential support line service made up of 600+ volunteer psychiatrists, joined together in the determined hope to provide peer support for their physician colleagues.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Phases of Disaster resources

Personal Protective Equipment

• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine: COVID-19: Protecting Health Care Workers- Reuse and Decontamination of N95 Respirators
• CDC Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of PPE
• CDC Webinar for Healthcare Professionals: Strategies for Healthcare Systems Preparedness and Optimizing N95 Supplies
• COVID HELP NETWORK an online platform that connects state governments and health care facilities with medical and non-medical companies that wish to convert the resources to manufacture emergency supplies in the face of COVID-19.
• FDA Surgical Mask and Gown Conservation Strategies - Letter to Healthcare Providers
• Joint Commission Instructional Video on Doffing Personal Protective Equipment
• Joint Commission Statements to Support Our Health Care Providers
• USP Response to Shortages of Garb and PPE for Sterile Compounding (PDF) during COVID-19:

Preventive Measures for Health Care Providers

• American Hospital Association: COVID-19 Resources for Protecting Health Care Workers
• CDC Interim Guidance for Public Health Personnel Evaluating Persons Under Investigation and Asymptomatic Close Contacts of Confirmed Cases at Their Home or Non-Home Residential Settings
• CDC Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Healthcare Settings
• CDC Information for Healthcare Providers: COVID-10 and Pregnant Women FAQ
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Related COVID-19 Standards and Directives
• USP Compounding Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer (PDF) During COVID-19 Pandemic
• World Health Organization (WHO): Infection control

Webinars and Toolkits

• CDC Webinar for Healthcare Professionals: Strategies for Healthcare Systems Preparedness and Optimizing N95 Supplies
• CDC Clinical Outreach and Communication Activity Webinars, Calls, and Slides
• Underlying Medical Conditions and People at Higher Risk for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Friday March 27, 2020)
• COVID-19 Update: Optimization Strategies for Healthcare Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (Wednesday March 25, 2020)
• Center to Advance Palliative Care:
• Virtual Office Hours: Navigating the Impact of COVID-19 in Palliative Care
• Webinar Briefing: Serious Illness, Palliative Care, and the Impact of COVID-19
• European Society of Anaesthesiology Webinar Treating your Patients Successfully During COVID-19
• COVID-19: Airway Management Webinar
• JAMA Network COVID-19 Q&A’s with Anthony Fauci and Montefiore Medical Center in NY
• Joint Commission Coronavirus Webinar Replays
• Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) Interim Considerations for Obstetric Anesthesia Care Related to COVID-19 ToolKit:
• Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): COVID-19 Learning Lessons from Seattle, Washington