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COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care
Approximately 4% of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). Governments have cancelled elective procedures, ordered new ventilators and built new hospitals to meet this unprecedented challenge. However, intensive care ultimately relie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10016976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32581082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138100 |
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author | Coughlan, Charles Nafde, Chaitanya Khodatars, Shaida Jeanes, Aimi Lara Habib, Sadia Donaldson, Elouise Besi, Christina Kooner, Gurleen Kaur |
author_facet | Coughlan, Charles Nafde, Chaitanya Khodatars, Shaida Jeanes, Aimi Lara Habib, Sadia Donaldson, Elouise Besi, Christina Kooner, Gurleen Kaur |
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description | Approximately 4% of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). Governments have cancelled elective procedures, ordered new ventilators and built new hospitals to meet this unprecedented challenge. However, intensive care ultimately relies on human resources. To enhance surge capacity, many junior doctors have been redeployed to ICU despite a relative lack of training and experience. The COVID-19 pandemic poses additional challenges to new ICU recruits, from the practicalities of using personal protective equipment to higher risks of burnout and moral injury. In this article, we describe lessons for junior doctors responsible for managing patients who are critically ill with COVID-19 based on our experiences at an urban teaching hospital. |
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spelling | pubmed-100169762023-05-23 COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care Coughlan, Charles Nafde, Chaitanya Khodatars, Shaida Jeanes, Aimi Lara Habib, Sadia Donaldson, Elouise Besi, Christina Kooner, Gurleen Kaur Postgrad Med J Education and Learning Approximately 4% of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). Governments have cancelled elective procedures, ordered new ventilators and built new hospitals to meet this unprecedented challenge. However, intensive care ultimately relies on human resources. To enhance surge capacity, many junior doctors have been redeployed to ICU despite a relative lack of training and experience. The COVID-19 pandemic poses additional challenges to new ICU recruits, from the practicalities of using personal protective equipment to higher risks of burnout and moral injury. In this article, we describe lessons for junior doctors responsible for managing patients who are critically ill with COVID-19 based on our experiences at an urban teaching hospital. Oxford University Press 2020-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10016976/ /pubmed/32581082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138100 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Education and Learning Coughlan, Charles Nafde, Chaitanya Khodatars, Shaida Jeanes, Aimi Lara Habib, Sadia Donaldson, Elouise Besi, Christina Kooner, Gurleen Kaur COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care |
title | COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care |
title_full | COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care |
title_fullStr | COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care |
title_short | COVID-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care |
title_sort | covid-19: lessons for junior doctors redeployed to critical care |
topic | Education and Learning |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10016976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32581082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138100 |
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