COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
To assist hospitals and health systems in making difficult decisions about how to deploy limited staff and resources, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has compiled a list of resources, tools and sample policies, which clinical teams can consult during the COVID-19 crisis.
Free tools for communicating with intubated COVID-19 patients and others unable to speak are available online from the Patient Provider Communication Forum.
Seattle’s University of Washington health system, UW Medicine, and its affiliates are sharing resources they developed as the first providers and administrators to encounter COVID-19 on U.S. soil.
An immunologist at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, Md., is working to develop a blood-derived treatment for use against COVID-19. The technique uses antibodies from the blood plasma or serum of people who have recovered from the infection. If all goes well, the team says, it may be…