Internal Guidance

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospitals

• RWJUH-NB Treatment Protocol for COVID-19 (4-10-2020)
• RWJUH-NB Anticoagulation Protocol for COVID-19 (4-10-20)
• RWJUH-NB Management of Respiratory Failure in COVID-19 (4-10-20)
• RWJ Somerset COVID-19 Clinical Evaluation Guide 3-17-2020
• RWJ Somerset COVID19 Treatment Guidance 3-16-2020

Organization Guidance

Government

• Local
  • NJ Department of Health COVID-19 Information for Healthcare Professionals
• National
  • NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
  • CDC COVID-19 Information for Healthcare Professionals
  • CDC COVID-19 Information for Healthcare Professionals
  • DoD COVID-19 Practice Management Guide V10
• Global
  • WHO COVID-19 Technical Guidance

Societies

• American College of Surgeons
  • ACS COVID-19 Bulletin 3-20-2020
  • ACS Guidance for Triage of Emergency General Surgery Cases
  • ACS: Maintaining Trauma Center Readiness
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • SCCM COVID19 Critical Care Guidelines
• American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • Joint Statement on Multiple Patients Per Ventilator American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

External Resources

Critical Care

• Emory Successful ICU Strategy
• Internet Book of Critical Care (IBCC) COVID-19 Project
• Brigham and Women’s COVID-19 Critical Care Guidelines
• UW Medicine COVID-19 Resource Site
• Michigan Critical Care Collaborative
• Dr. Nick Mark’s COVID-19 ICU One-Pager v2.7
• Dr. Michael Lin PhD, MD COVID presentation 03-16-202

Ventilator Resources

• Colombia Emergency Ventilator-Sharing-Protocol-Dual-Patient-Ventilation-with-a-Single-Mechanical-Ventilator

Personal Protective Equipment

• CDC Guidance on FFR Decontamination and Re-use
  • University of Nebraska N95 Decontamination Protocol
  • Lindsley et al. Effects of Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) on N95 Respirator Filtration Performance and Structural Integrity
• Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data (CIDRAP Commentary)
• Performance and Protection of the Face Mask (UT-Research Foundation)

Algorithms

• BMJ COVID Remote Consultation Inforgraphic (Full text)
• BIDMC Labor and Delivery Algorithm 3-30-2020

Public Health

• NJ Department of Health COVID-19 Dashboard
• Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Global Map
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation COVID-19 Projections

Recent Publications

NCBI/Pubmed Resource Page

• Virus Characteristics
  • Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in different environmental conditions (Lancet)
  • SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol and Surface Stability
• Epidemiology
  • Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019
  • Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
  • Radiological findings from 81 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study
• Therapeutics
  • Anticoagulant treatment is associated with decreased mortality in severe coronavirus disease 2019 patients with coagulopathy
  • COVID-19: consider cytokine storm syndromes and immunosuppression
  • Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open label non-randomized clinical trial
  • Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro
  • Effective Treatment of Severe COVID-19 Patients with Tocilizumab
  • A Trial of Lopinavir–Ritonavir in Adults Hospitalized with Severe Covid-19
• Ethics & Clinician Impact
  • Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid-19 pandemic (BMJ)
  • COVID-19 and experiences of moral injury ni front-line key workers (Occupational Medicine)
  • Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 (NEJM)
  • The Toughest Triage – Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic (NEJM)

These links are provided solely for your consideration. The Rutgers Program in Global Surgery Social Equity & Responsibility is not providing these as recommendations for care of patients.