Journal article
The Neurocritical Care Society of India (NCSI) and the Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care (ISNACC) Joint Position Statement and Advisory on the Practice of Neurocritical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of neuroanaesthesiology and critical care, Vol.7(3), pp.128-139
09/01/2020
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1714648
Abstract
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly spread across the world including India. Management of patients complicated with neurological illness requiring neurocritical care is challenging during this time. Patients with neurological disease may develop COVID-19 infection or there could be independent neurological manifestations of COVID-19. Critically ill neurological patients are more vulnerable to contracting SARS-CoV-2 infection. Also, neurological patients with comorbidities and multisystem involvement are at increased risk of adverse outcomes. Though SARS-CoV-2 predominantly affects the pulmonary system, it can complicate the assessment and management of neurological patients. With increasing COVID-19 numbers, the hospitalizations of both non-COVID and COVID-19 neurological patients will bring significant strain on the hospital and neurocritical care facilities. Streamlining work pattern, understanding the pathophysiology of COVID-19 and its impact on neurological function, establishing general and specific neurocritical care management strategies, ensuring protection and well-being of health care providers, and implementing effective infection control policies are key elements of efficient neurocritical care management during this pandemic. This joint position statement and advisory on the practice of neurocritical care during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Neurocritical Care Society of India and the Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care has been developed to guide clinicians providing care to the critically ill neurological patients in the neurocritical care unit during the current pandemic. As the situation from this novel disease is rapidly evolving, readers must constantly update themselves with newly emerging evidence to provide the best possible care to the critically ill neurological patients.
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- Title: Subtitle
- The Neurocritical Care Society of India (NCSI) and the Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care (ISNACC) Joint Position Statement and Advisory on the Practice of Neurocritical Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Creators
- Ponniah Vanamoorthy - Instituto de NeurocienciasGyaninder P. Singh - All India Institute of Medical SciencesPrasanna U. Bidkar - Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and ResearchRanadhir Mitra - CARE HospitalsKamath Sriganesh - National Institute of Mental Health and NeurosciencesSiddharth Chavali - Aditya Birla Memorial HospitalRadhakrishnan Muthuchellapan - National Institute of Mental Health and NeurosciencesVenkatesh H. Keshavan - Apollo HospitalsSaurabh Anand - Artemis HospitalsKeshav Goyal - All India Institute of Medical SciencesRahul Yadav - INHS AsviniGirija P. Rath - All India Institute of Medical SciencesShashi Srivastava - Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of neuroanaesthesiology and critical care, Vol.7(3), pp.128-139
- DOI
- 10.1055/s-0040-1714648
- ISSN
- 2348-0548
- eISSN
- 2348-926X
- Publisher
- Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984771655102771
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