Educational Resources

COVID-19 Specific Educational Resources

Information on COVID-19 Booster shots

• Eligibility Criteria Third Doses Immunocompromised
• Eligible Medications
• Immunocompromised Additional Doses Memo
• Primary Immunodifficiency

COVID-19 Specific videos

• Intubation of a COVID-19 Patient | i. Prebrief  https://vimeo.com/399583618
• Intubation of a COVID-19 Patient | ii. Intubation https://vimeo.com/399579522
• Decompensating Patient - COVID-19 Inpatient Unit | iii. Assessment https://vimeo.com/399579248
• Oxygen Therapy for a COVID-19 Patient  https://vimeo.com/399579713
• General Principles: Emergency Airway Management for Suspected COVID-19 Infection
• Ventilating COVID-19 Patients https://esicm-tv.org/webinar1_live_20-how-to-ventilate-in-covid-19.html
• COVID-19 Guideline Based Ventilation Strategies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjJG5Q-C7Yk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1CgrRJi7TJbF2GRKPqN23zBXf_VeDnxedPRs1sQfvpwKS29aQ8qlUAAQQ
• Considerations for mechanical ventilation CSRT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_6xPuSALI&feature=youtu.be

COVID-19 Specific Articles of Interest

• The Center of Excellence in Mechanical Ventilation publication of guidelines for management of COVID patients. https://coemv.ca/covid-19-message-to-respiratory-therapists/ (proning video included)
• The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) COVID-19 Guidelines
• Society of Critical Care Medicine COVID-19 Resource Responses

• The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: Rapid review of the evidence            https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32112714/

Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) COVID-19 Guidelines:  https://cts-sct.ca/covid-19/

Nova Scotia Health Authority Resources

• COVID-19: Recommendations for the use of CPAP or BIPAP Therapy for Inpatients
• Putting on PPE
• Removing PPE
• NSHA Prone Position Policy
• NSHA Clincial Guidelines for Proning

Respiratory Therapy Information Review

Dalhousie School of Health Sciences Resources

• Oxygen Therapy
• Specialized Ventilation Strategies
• Prone Position
• Review of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Online Videos

An online video series on a variety of topics including: principles of mechanical ventilation (series of 14 videos), Arterial blood gas interpretation with examples, A-a Gradient, Alveolar Air Equation, Recruitment maneuvers in ARDS patients, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtaRF58UDVthvH36YYCttng

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Relevant Research

• An updated study-level meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials on proning in ARDS and acute lung injury
• Consensus guidelines for Managing the Airway in Patients with Covid-19
• Chinese Journal of Critical Care & Intensive Care Medicine, Expert advice on respiratory treatment procedures for severe new coronavirus pneumonia:  http://rs.yiigle.com/yufabiao/1180124.htm
• Intensive Care Medicine, Critical care crisis and some recommendations during the COVID-19 epidemic in China : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00134-020-05979-7.pdf
• Chinese Journal of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Medicine, Expert Consensus on Respiratory Therapy Related to New Coronavirus Infection in Severe and Critical Patients: http://rs.yiigle.com/yufabiao/1182334.htm
• The Kotoda et al. 2019 study , Assessment of the potential for pathogen dispersal during high-flow nasal therapy: https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(19)30479-7/pdf
• Leung et al. 2019,Comparison of high-flow nasal cannula versus oxygen face mask for environmental bacterial contamination in critically ill pneumonia patients: a randomized controlled crossover trial. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30336170
• Hui et al. 2019, Exhaled air dispersion during high-flow nasal cannula therapy versus CPAP via different masks. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=hui+2019+exhaled+air+dispersion