A comprehensive review of diagnosis and treatment in critically ill adults with COVID-19

Shuanglan Xu; Zi Chen; Linyang Ge; Aiping Chen; Wei Zhang; Zikai Sun; Tongfu Yu; Suofang Shi; Linfu Zhou

doi:10.1142/S2575900020300015

Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine (Mar 2020)

A comprehensive review of diagnosis and treatment in critically ill adults with COVID-19

Shuanglan Xu,
Zi Chen,
Linyang Ge,
Aiping Chen,
Wei Zhang,
Zikai Sun,
Tongfu Yu,
Suofang Shi,
Linfu Zhou

Affiliations

Shuanglan Xu: Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, P. R. China
Zi Chen: Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, P. R. China
Linyang Ge: Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, P. R. China
Aiping Chen: Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Nanjing 210029, P. R. China
Wei Zhang: Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Nanjing 210029, P. R. China
Zikai Sun: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, P. R. China
Tongfu Yu: Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University Nanjing 210029, P. R. China
Suofang Shi: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, P. R. China
Linfu Zhou: Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, P. R. China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S2575900020300015
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 71 – 76

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The highly infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that emerged in Wuhan, China, was caused by a novel strain of coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Subsequently, it was considered as one of the serious potential threats to global public health due to rapid spread worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine in critically ill adults with COVID-19. We searched the related papers published up to April 20, 2020 on the PubMed and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. The findings will improve the potential recognition of COVID-19 among clinicians and the general public, and presumably contribute to the reduction of mortality.

Published in Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine

ISSN: 2575-9000 (Print); 2575-9019 (Online)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Country of publisher: Singapore
LCC subjects: Medicine: Other systems of medicine
Website: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/tmmm

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