Prehospital management of acute respiratory distress in suspected COVID-19 patients

In December 2019, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged in China and became a world-wide pandemic in March 2020. Emergency services and intensive care units (ICUs) were faced with a novel disease with unknown clinical characteristics and presentations. Acute respiratory distress (ARD) was often the chief complaint for an EMS call. This retrospective study evaluated prehospital ARD management and identified factors associated with the need of prehospital mechanical ventilation (PMV) for suspected COVID-19 patients.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - September 13, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Romain Jouffroy, Sabine Lemoine, Cl ément Derkenne, Romain Kedzierewicz, Marine Scannavino, Kilian Bertho, Benoit Frattini, Frédéric Lemoine, Daniel Jost, Bertrand Prunet Source Type: research