COVID-Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities Intensive Care Unit

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Ricardo E. Verdiner, Mayo Clinic Arizona; Christopher G. Choukalas, University of California San Francisco; Shahla Siddiqui, Harvard University; David L. Stahl, Ohio State University; Samuel M. Galvagno, University of Maryland; Craig Jabaley, Emory University; Raquel R. Bartz, Duke University; Meghan Lane-Fall, University of Pennsylvania; Kristina Goff, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Roshni Sreedharan, Cleveland Clinic; Suzanne Bennett, University of Cincinnati; George W. Williams, University of Texas Health Science Center; Ashish Khanna, Emory University
• Language: English
• Date: 2020-08-01
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2020 International Anesthesia Research Society.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000004957
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Anesthesia & Analgesia
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 2
• Start Page: 365
• End Page: 377
• Grant/Funding Information: his study was prepared as a collaborative effort of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA).
• Keywords: Critically-ill patients; Anesthesiology; Management; Refractory hypoxia; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Failure; Coronavirus; Diagnosis; Science & Technology; Respiratory distress syndrome; Acute kidney injury; Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Health Care Management; Health Sciences, Public Health; Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery

Abstract

In response to the rapidly evolving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the potential need for physicians to provide critical care services, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has collaborated with the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) to develop the COVID-Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities (CAESAR) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) workgroup. CAESAR-ICU is designed and written for the practicing general anesthesiologist and should serve as a primer to enable an anesthesiologist to provide limited bedside critical care services.