Critical Care for COVID-19 Affected Patients: Position Statement of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

Yatin Mehta; Dhruva Chaudhry; O C Abraham; Jose Chacko; Jigeeshu Divatia; Bharat Jagiasi; Arindam Kar; G C Khilnani; Bhuvana Krishna; Prashant Kumar; R K Mani; B K Rao; Pawan K Singh; Sanjeev Singh; Pavan Tiwary; Chand Wattal; Deepak Govil; Subhal Dixit; Srinivas Samavedam

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23395

Critical Care for COVID-19 Affected Patients: Position Statement of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine

Indian J Crit Care Med. 2020 Apr;24(4):222-241. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23395.

Authors

Yatin Mehta¹, Dhruva Chaudhry², O C Abraham³, Jose Chacko⁴, Jigeeshu Divatia⁵, Bharat Jagiasi⁶, Arindam Kar⁷, G C Khilnani⁸, Bhuvana Krishna⁹, Prashant Kumar¹⁰, R K Mani¹¹, B K Rao¹², Pawan K Singh², Sanjeev Singh¹³, Pavan Tiwary¹⁴, Chand Wattal¹⁵, Deepak Govil¹, Subhal Dixit¹⁶, Srinivas Samavedam¹⁷

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Critical Care and Anesthesiology, Medanta: The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
² Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
³ Infectious Disease Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁴ Critical Care Medicine, Narayana Hrudyala, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
⁵ Critical Care and Anesthesia, Tata Memorial Center, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
⁶ Department of Critical Care, Reliance Hospital, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
⁷ CK Birla Hospitals; CMRI Institute of Critical Care; Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine; European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
⁸ Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, PSRI Hospital, New Delhi, India.
⁹ Department of Critical Care Medicine, St. John's Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
¹⁰ Department of Anesthesiology, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
¹¹ Critical Care and Pulmonology, Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, New Delhi, India.
¹² Department of Critical care and Emergency Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
¹³ Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Ernakulam, Kerala, India; Amrita Hospitals, Faridabad, Haryana, India.
¹⁴ All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
¹⁵ Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India.
¹⁶ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sanjeevan and MJM Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
¹⁷ Department of Critical Care, Virinchi Hospital, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Abstract

The global pandemic involving severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) has stretched the limits of science. Ever since it emerged from the Wuhan province in China, it has spread across the world and has been fatal to about 4% of the victims. This position statement of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine represents the collective opinion of the experts chosen by the society.

How to cite this article: Mehta Y, Chaudhry D, Abraham OC, Chacko J, Divatia J, Jagiasi B, et al. Critical Care for COVID-19 Affected Patients: Position Statement of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(4):222-241.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-COV-2; Viral pneumonia.