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COVID-19 – what should anaethesiologists and intensivists know about it?

Magdalena A. Wujtewicz
1
,
Anna Dylczyk-Sommer
1
,
Aleksander Aszkiełowicz
1
,
Szymon Zdanowski
2
,
Sebastian Piwowarczyk
2
,
Radoslaw Owczuk
1

  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
  2. Students’ Scientific Society at the Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther 2020; 52, 1: 34–41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ait.2020.93756
Online publish date: 2020/03/16
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Over the past three months, the world has faced an unprecedented health hazard. The World Health Organization has announced a pandemic infection with an unknown species of coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Spreading mainly through the droplet route, the virus causes mild symptoms in the majority of cases, the most common being: fever (80%), dry cough (56%), fatigue (22%) and muscle pain (7%); less common symptoms include a sore throat, a runny nose, diarrhea, hemoptysis and chills. A life-threatening complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection is an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which occurs more often in older adults, those with immune disorders and co-morbidities. Severe forms of the infection, being an indication for treatment in the intensive care unit, comprise acute lung inflammation, ARDS, sepsis and septic shock. The article presents basic information about etiology, pathogenesis and diagnostics (with particular emphasis on the importance of tomocomputer imaging), clinical picture, treatment and prevention of the infection. It goes on to emphasize the specific risks of providing anesthesiology and intensive care services. Due to the fact that effective causal treatment is not yet available and the number of infections and deaths increases day by day, infection prevention and strict adherence to recommendations of infection control organizations remain the basis for fighting the virus.
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viruses, SARS-CoV-2, infection, COVID-19, acute pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
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