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Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders
We report on the international retrieval of a critically ill, ventilated, coronavirus disease 2019–positive patient from Dili, East Timor, into the intensive care unit of the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia. The patient had severe respiratory failure, and the medical team in Dili was struggling t...
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Air Medical Journal Associates. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8830750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35595343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2022.01.002 |
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author | Pracher, Florian Agarwal, Sidharth Goldrick, Paul Davies, Jane |
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description | We report on the international retrieval of a critically ill, ventilated, coronavirus disease 2019–positive patient from Dili, East Timor, into the intensive care unit of the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia. The patient had severe respiratory failure, and the medical team in Dili was struggling to maintain adequate oxygenation with a fraction of inspired oxygen of 1 most of the time. This occurred during an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in East Timor, placing strain on the local health system. Therefore, it was decided to transfer the patient to Australia. Given the closed international borders of Australia, organization of the retrieval and infection control measures were challenging and are described in the article. We discuss the need for a pathway to retrieve critically ill patients into a well-resourced country during a pandemic and the importance of public health measures including a robust vaccination program. |
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spelling | pubmed-88307502022-02-11 Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders Pracher, Florian Agarwal, Sidharth Goldrick, Paul Davies, Jane Air Med J Case Report We report on the international retrieval of a critically ill, ventilated, coronavirus disease 2019–positive patient from Dili, East Timor, into the intensive care unit of the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia. The patient had severe respiratory failure, and the medical team in Dili was struggling to maintain adequate oxygenation with a fraction of inspired oxygen of 1 most of the time. This occurred during an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in East Timor, placing strain on the local health system. Therefore, it was decided to transfer the patient to Australia. Given the closed international borders of Australia, organization of the retrieval and infection control measures were challenging and are described in the article. We discuss the need for a pathway to retrieve critically ill patients into a well-resourced country during a pandemic and the importance of public health measures including a robust vaccination program. Air Medical Journal Associates. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022 2022-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8830750/ /pubmed/35595343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2022.01.002 Text en © 2022 Air Medical Journal Associates. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Pracher, Florian Agarwal, Sidharth Goldrick, Paul Davies, Jane Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders |
title | Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders |
title_full | Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders |
title_fullStr | Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders |
title_full_unstemmed | Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders |
title_short | Repatriation of a Critically Ill Coronavirus Disease 2019–Positive Patient Across Closed Borders |
title_sort | repatriation of a critically ill coronavirus disease 2019–positive patient across closed borders |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8830750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35595343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amj.2022.01.002 |
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