Treatment Modalities in the Intensive Care Unit for Coronavirus Disease 2019

Abstract

The last Influenza pandemic of 1918 happened before the advent of modern medicine. We have come a long way since then. But the COVID-19 pandemic has still caught us unprepared on many fronts. The review focuses on the management of critically ill COVID-19 patients and the various treatment modalities being employed to counter this incompletely understood disease.

Keywords

• covid-19
• pneumonia
• viral
• respiratory distress syndrome
• adult