Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia (Jan 2020)

Saudi heart association, national heart center and national cardiopulmonary resuscitation committee taskforce statement on cpr and resuscitation during COVID-19 pandemic

  • AbdulMajeed S Khan,
  • Abdullah M Kaki,
  • Abdulrahman R Bakhsh,
  • Ahmed S A. Hersi,
  • Jameel T AbuAlenain,
  • Jubara S Alallah,
  • Fayez A Bokhari,
  • Nasser AlQahtani,
  • Bandar M AlKabli,
  • Abdulrahman Al Qahtani,
  • Nawfal AlJerian,
  • Rashid AlOtaibi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/sja.SJA_401_20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 3
pp. 365 – 369

Abstract

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Corona virus disease 2019 is a global pandemic, which affects around 2million individuals with a high death rate that exceeds 90,000 death cases across the globe. The Saudi Heart Association and the national cardiopulmonary resuscitation committee developed a taskforce to discuss the magnitude of clinical situation and CPR management on COVID-19 patients in a prehospital and in-hospital settings. Meanwhile, the taskforce aims to develop a nation-wide clinical guidance to be used by health care workers and untrained laypersons to resuscitate COVID-19 suspected and diagnosed patients.

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