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PPE & Safety Precautions

Please consult the BC CDC guidelines on personal protective equipment in addition to guidelines issued by your own Health Authority.

• Oxygenation & Intubation Threshold Guidance for Adults with Suspected Covid-19 in Rural Settings – Last Updated Oct. 30, 2020

• General Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines (BC CDC) – Last Updated Sep. 29, 2020

• Recommendations for PPE in the Emergency Department During COVID-19 (CAEP) – Last Updated April 20, 2020

• Infection Control Guidelines (BC CDC) – Regularly Updated

• COVID-19 Ultrasound Workflow & Safety (St. Paul’s Hospital) – Last Updated March 22, 2020

• COVID-19 Cell Phone Hygiene – Last Updated March 30, 2020

• COVID-19 Oxygen Therapy and Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMP) (VCH) – Last Updated April 2, 2020

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Special Populations

• COVID-19 in Older Adults: Key Points for Emergency Department Providers – (The Geriatric ED Collaborative) – Last Updated Dec 15, 2020

• Providing Culturally Safe Perinatal Care During COVID-19 (First Nations Health Authority and Perinatal Services BC) – Last Updated June 12, 2020

• Pregnancy Care During COVID-19 Pandemic – Clinical Guidelines (BC CDC) – Regularly Updated

Pediatric

• All BC CDC Pediatric COVID-19 Guidelines. Guidance for caring for newborns can be found on the newborns page (BC CDC) – Regularly Updated

• Pediatric COVID-19 – Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) – Regularly Updated

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Clinical Management

• Health Gateway Resources for Health Professionals (BC Ministry of Health) – Last Updated June 2, 2021

• Diagram: Clinical Care Pathway of VITT/TTS in BC (BC COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee & Medical Director, Thrombosis Program, VCH) – Last Updated April 30, 2021

• Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT) (BC COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee & Medical Director, Thrombosis Program, VCH) – Last Updated April 30, 2021

• Antimicrobial and Immunomodulatory Therapy in Adult Patients with COVID-19  – Updated Regularly

• Pathologic Antibodies to Platelet Factor 4 after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccination (Scully M, et al. NEJM) – Last Updated April 16, 2021

• SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine–Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia. (Cines D B & Bussel J B. NEJM) – Last Updated April 16, 2021

• Vaccine-Induced Prothrombotic Immune Thrombocytopenia (VIPIT) Following AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccination (Science Table COVID-19 Advisory Ontario) – Last Updated Mar. 26, 2021

• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQ – Interval between doses (VCH) – Last Updated Jan. 29, 2021

• BC CDC Vaccine Biological Product Pages – Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA Vaccine (BNT162b2) & Moderna (mRNA Vaccine mRNA-1273)

• COVID-19 Vaccine Information (BC Ministry of Health)

• Real-Time Virtual Support Services

• How to perform a nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) (PHC) – Last Updated May 1, 2020

• Remote & Rural COVID-19 Community Cohort Conversation Cue Card

• Provincial COVID 19 Transfer Algorithm (Concept Plan) – Last Updated April 14, 2020

• Guidance for Primary Care Management of Adults in the Community with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 (BC CDC) – Regularly Updated 

• Coagulopathy Associated with COVID-19 (NJEM) – Published April 6, 2020

• Palliative Care outside the ICU – Symptom Management for Adult Patients – (BC Centre for Palliative Care) – Last Updated March 22, 2020

• Ethical considerations in the allocation of critical care resources (CJEM) – Published March 30, 2020

• Serious Illness Conversation with COVID-19 Patients (PHC) – Last Updated March 24, 2020

• Surviving Sepsis Guidelines – Management of Critically Ill Adults with COVID-19 – Last Updated March 24, 2020

• COVID-19 Healthcare Innovation Response – View and submit creative clinical solutions for managing the COVID-19 pandemic (CanadiEM.org) – Last Updated March 31, 2020

• COVID-19 – EMCrit Project

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Resuscitation

• Adult CPR Protocol for Suspect and Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 (BC CDC) – Last Updated March 31, 2020

• Basic and Advanced Life Support in Adults, Children, and Neonates With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 (Circulation AHA Journal) – Last Updated April 9, 2020

• AIME Open Access Materials and Procedural Videos – Updated Regularly

• COVID-19: Protected Controlled Intubation & Cardiac Arrest (L. Mazurik, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto) – Last Updated March 8, 2020

• Modification to Bystander Hands-Only CPR during the COVID-19 pandemic (Heart & Stroke) – Last Updated April 6, 2020

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Clinician Self-Care

• Health Care Provider Support (BC CDC) – Regularly Updated

• Doctors of BC Physician Health Program Support – Regularly Updated

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Simulation

• In Situ Simulation and High Reliability Organizations in the time of COVID-19 (CanadiEM) – Last Updated Oct. 1, 2020

• COVID-19 – Airway Management Case – Last Updated Sep. 17, 2020

• CORONA WARS, An Emergency Simulation of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Last Updated March 20, 2020

• How-to-guide for an In Situ Sim Session for COVID-19 (Simulation Canada) – Last Updated March 12, 2020.

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Useful Links

External Organizations

• Daily BC Ministry of Health Update. Live daily on Facebook or Twitter  – Updated Daily

• Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) COVID-19 Resources – Updated Regularly

• CMA update: Information for physicians and the public on the coronavirus – Updated Regularly

• COVID-19 : Clinical Assessment & Management (ACEP) – Regularly Updated

• University of Washington Medicine COVID-19 Resource Site – Regularly Updated

• Free open access to Cochrane Library Special Collection: Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care – Regularly Updated

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Epidemiology

Canadian

• BC Centre for Disease Control (BC CDC) 

• Public Health Agency of Canada – Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Outbreak Update

Global

• Johns Hopkins (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Centre

• World Health Organization (WHO)

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Member Blogs, Videos, & Discussions

• COVID-19 Stories | What to Expect When Visiting the ER During COVID-19 – Jul. 7, 2020

• Physician Expertise, Leadership and Community in COVID – Jul. 3, 2020

• COVID-19 Stories: ED Team Work Strategies During the Pandemic – Jun. 22, 2020

• COVID-19 Stories: I Can’t Fix Everything – Jun. 10, 2020

• COVID-19 Stories: We Thank You Bonnie – May 27, 2020

• COVID-19 Stories: Get Started With Real-Time Virtual Support for Emergency Care – May 27, 2020

• Real-Time Virtual Support is Here – May 12, 2020

• COVID-19 Stories: My Experience Contracting COVID-19 – May 13, 2020

• More COVID-19 Blog Posts & Discussions

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