The monitoring of patients experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 infection, in critical care, for nurses & other healthcare professionals new to critical care.

The webinar link will appear here just before the session starts

for a recording of the webinar please press on the image of the PowerPoint slide below

Additional Reading

You may find the following resources useful:

Here is a glossary of terms used in the module: glossary.docx

The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), Intensive Care Society (ICS), Association of Anaesthetists (AA), and Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCA) have pulled their collective heads together to provide top-quality, evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for the Management of COVID-19 patients. The website is updated daily and is well worth a look around:

The NICE Critical Care NG159 Pathway has been published (25^th march 2020) https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19

the latest evidence-based from Cochrane focused on COVID_19 is here

Wiley Press have made access available to The 10th edition of Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical and Cancer Nursing Procedures for all taking this programme of study. Please use this link. The login details are username bradford123 password bradford123 Please review procedure 13.5, Chapters 14 & 17

The West Yorkshire Critical Care Network have produced a series of resources to assist practitioners who are re-deployed to critical care areas from their 'home' areas: WYCCN COVID-19 Resources (Links to an external site.)

Additional Resources

Unfortunately in an online delivery setting it isn't always possible to demonstrate some of the skills we allude to. Please see the video below which may be useful in aiding your understanding:

Here is a video on how to set up a transducer, zero it and take an arterial blood gas from an Arterial line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuExBjzS7Mo

Here in an useful infographic in Vessel Health (Click on the link to see the original image)