Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease arising from the beta coronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has presented a major challenge to health-care systems and societies across the…
Introduction Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves Matthew 7:15 The original severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) also…
Early in March of 2020, everything changed in the intensive care units (ICUs) throughout the nation. All of the sudden, surgical and N95 masks were the most valuable items in…
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic took the world by surprise in 2020, rapidly overwhelming our societies, economies, and health-care systems. The health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators, government leaders,…
The emergence of a new virus of the Coronaviridae family, called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) which was detected for the first time in December 2019 in Wuhan…
“She’s young,” I thought to myself one night as the intensive care physician on call in the hospital. I had been called to evaluate a patient in her thirties who…
Disaster has been defined in numerous terms. But in essence, disaster is a disruption of function that causes the ability of the affected community to overcome using its resources. Pandemics…
Are we heroes or martyrs? Well, it depends on many things. At the beginning of the pandemic, everyone saw us as heroes and I even came to feel like one….
Acknowledgments Special Thanks: Dr. Pilar Pardo and PAHO Washington for the enormous contribution to make this chapter possible. Introduction Numerous viral infections have risen in the last decades, causing severe…
1 What equations are commonly used on the wards? Anion Gap Na − (Cl + HCO 3 ) Normal = 10–14 FeNa FENa = [(U Na × S Cr )/(S…
