COVID-19 airway management and ventilation strategy for critically ill order patients / edited by Chhavi Singh and Abhinayu Singh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Airway management in patients with COVID-19 -- Care for critically ill patients with COVID-19 -- Mechanical ventilation -- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport -- Pandemic prevention -- Considerations for diagnostic COVID-19 tests -- COVID-19 and chronic liver disease -- Rehabilitation of older patients -- Air transport of the critically ill pediatric patient -- Disorders of the cardiovascular system.

"Older adults are more susceptible to complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a result of viral pneumonia. They are commonly frail and with multiple comorbidities. Frailty means reduced functional reserve of the different organs and systems such as that respiratory. Hence, older adults have less ability to react to acute stressors. In dealing with community spread of COVID-19, two active interventions have been attempted or advocated-containment, and mitigation. Given the extensive impact of COVID-19 globally, there is international interest to learn from best practices that have been shown to work in controlling community spread to inform future outbreaks. Management of older adults with Covid is complicated. The reduced availability of beds may limit their access to ICU. Moreover, the prognosis may be poor, and airway management and ventilation strategies have to take into account various clinical and physiological characteristics specific to older patients. Patients with known or suspected COVID-19 experienced higher rates of difficult or failed tracheal intubation, and the requirements for an emergency surgical airway were found when compared to historical reports in the literature. Increased risks of airway complications must be considered when planning to initiate invasive mechanical ventilation in patients with COVID-19 respiratory failure. Optimizing operator factors, such as performing rapid sequence induction, using powered air-purifying respirators, and increased previous COVID-19 tracheal intubation experience, could potentially contribute to successful first-attempt tracheal intubation. This book describes the issues and challenges that clinicians encountered in the management of older critically ill patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, and offers practical information on how to manage them"-- Back cover.