Improving Helmet CPAP Use during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multidisciplinary Approach in the Emergency Department

Continuous positive airway pressure; COVID-19; Emergency department; Noninvasive ventilation; Nursing; Respiratory insufficiency; Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; Emergency Service, Hospital; Humans; Noninvasive Ventilation; Pandemics; SARS-CoV-2; hospital emergency service; human; noninvasive ventilation; pandemic; positive end expiratory pressure ventilation

Abstract :

[en] The aim of this article is to describe the importance of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to noninvasive ventilation training of the emergency department's staff. In our experience, the presence of a medical and nursing "noninvasive ventilation group"made it possible to quickly teach expertise on the management of noninvasive ventilation of COVID-19 patients among emergency department doctors and nurses. This allowed improving a standardized approach regarding the identification and ventilatory assistance of patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia needing ventilatory support, the correct use of the devices, and quick identification and reduction of the complications associated with noninvasive ventilation. In this article, we would like to encourage the formation of similar working groups in all situations where this is not yet present. © Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Disciplines :

Nursing Science

Author, co-author :

PRIVITERA, Daniele ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Life Sciences and Medicine (DLSM) > Medical Education ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Asst Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Mazzone, Annamaria; Department of Emergency Medicine, Asst Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Vailati, Paolo; Department of Emergency Medicine, Asst Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Amato, Raffaela; Department of Emergency Medicine, Asst Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Capsoni, Nicolò; Department of Emergency Medicine, Asst Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy

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Language :

English

Title :

Improving Helmet CPAP Use during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multidisciplinary Approach in the Emergency Department

Publication date :

2022

Journal title :

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing

ISSN :

0730-4625

eISSN :

1538-8646

Publisher :

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

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Issue :

Pages :

178 - 181

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