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BC CDC Guidelines

• All BC CDC Clinical Care Guidelines – Regularly Updated – Regularly Updated

• Pediatrics – Testing & Clinical Guidance – Regularly Updated

• Exposures and return to work for health care workers – Regularly Updated

• Outpatient Management of Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 cases – Last Updated April 14, 2020

• General Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines – Regularly Updated

• Infection Control Guidelines for COVID-19 – Regularly Updated

• Pregnancy Care During COVID-19 Pandemic – Clinical Guidelines – Regularly Updated

• Drug Treatment and Therapy Guidelines for COVID-19 includes antimicrobial and immunomodulatory therapy – Regularly Updated

• COVID 19 Ethics Guidance – Regularly Updated

• Exposures and return to work for health care workers – Regularly Updated

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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. 13, 2020

• General Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines (BC CDC) – Regularly Updated

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

• Infection Control Guidelines on the Management of Critical Adults with COVID-19 (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

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

• COVID-19 in Older Adults: Key Points for Emergency Department Providers – (The Geriatric ED Collaborative) – Last Updated March 21, 2020

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

• Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) – Information on Pediatric COVID-19 – Last Updated March 16, 2020

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Clinical Management

• 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

• Outpatient Management of Suspected and Confirmed COVID-19 cases (BC CDC) – Last Updated April 14, 2020

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

• Symptom management for adult patients with COVID-19 receiving end-of-life supportive care outside of the ICU (BC Centre for Palliative Care) – Last Updated March 22, 2020

• Ethical considerations in the allocation of critical care resources when capacity is overwhelmed (CJEM) – Published March 30, 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

• 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

• COVID-19 Airway Rounds by George Kovacs co-developer of AIME (AIMEairway) – Last Updated April 17, 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

• GroceryHero a free delivery service to help our frontline medical professionals – Last Updated April 14, 2020

• Doctors of BC Physician Health Program support line

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Simulation

• COVID-19 – Airway Management Case – Last Updated March 12, 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 & Discussions

• Real-Time Virtual Support is Here – Posted May 13, 2020

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

• COVID-19 Pandemic: Share Your Experiences – Posted May 12, 2020

• COVID-19 research study – please participate – Posted May 8, 2020

• Mini-update: STEMI during Covid-19 – Posted April 27, 2020

• A Rough Few Months: Facing the pandemic as part of a pan-provincial team – Posted April 15, 2020

• CPoCUS Ultrasound protection and disinfection protocols – Posted March 30, 2020

• Additional help in ED – Posted March 26, 2020

• COVID Test Panel – Posted March 21, 2020

• An idea for EM personnel looking for accommodation – Posted March 21, 2020

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

• COVID-19 – coming to a small town near you (Private Member Discussion) – Posted March 17, 2020

• How-to-guide for an In Situ Sim Session for COVID-19 (Jared Baylis, Simulation Canada) – Posted March 13, 2020

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