Review Article
Year: 2020 | Month: April-June | Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 130-138
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Practice in the Times of COVID-19
Sudheer Tale1, Soibam Pahel Meitei1, Manmeet Pratap Singh1, Divya2, Sivaji Pudi3, Mrudula Kolli1, Tale Sireesha4, Bharat Vadlamani5
1Senior Resident, Department of Pulmonary, Critical care and sleep medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand – 249203, India.
2Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand – 249203, India.
3Junior Resident, Department of Anaesthesia, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand – 249203, India.
4Senior Resident, Department of Prosthodontics, St. Josephs Dental College, Andhra Pradesh.
5Senior Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand – 249203, India.
Corresponding Author: Sudheer Tale
ABSTRACT
On December 31, 2019, WHO informed about the cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology in Wuhan city, China. They found that it was caused by a novel strain of coronavirus (nCoV) which was not identified previously in humans. This COVID-19 pandemic has a tremendous effect on various health care services being provided by the hospitals as most of them were overwhelmed in providing care to a large number of COVID patients. In this review article, we discussed how Pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine practice was changed during these hard times and we also wrote our opinions on the management of these patients in this COVID-19 pandemic after a thorough search of the literature.
Keywords: COVID-19, pulmonary, sleep, Critical care.