COVID-Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities Intensive Care Unit

Ricardo E Verdiner; Christopher G Choukalas; Shahla Siddiqui; David L Stahl; Samuel M Galvagno Jr; Craig S Jabaley; Raquel R Bartz; Meghan Lane-Fall; Kristina L Goff; Roshni Sreedharan; Suzanne Bennett; George W Williams; Ashish K Khanna

doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000004957

COVID-Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities Intensive Care Unit

Anesth Analg. 2020 Aug;131(2):365-377. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004957.

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona.
² Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Pain, and Intensive Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Multi Trauma Critical Care Unit, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁷ Departments of Anesthesia and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
⁸ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Texas (UT), Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
¹⁰ Center for Excellence in Healthcare Communication, Department of General Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
¹¹ Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
¹² Department of Anesthesiology, McGovern Medical School, UT Health, Houston, Texas.
¹³ Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, Ohio.

Abstract

In response to the rapidly evolving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the potential need for physicians to provide critical care services, the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has collaborated with the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) to develop the COVID-Activated Emergency Scaling of Anesthesiology Responsibilities (CAESAR) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) workgroup. CAESAR-ICU is designed and written for the practicing general anesthesiologist and should serve as a primer to enable an anesthesiologist to provide limited bedside critical care services.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Anesthesia Department, Hospital / organization & administration*
Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / organization & administration*
Emergency Medical Services / organization & administration*
Humans
Intensive Care Units / organization & administration*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Practice Guidelines as Topic
SARS-CoV-2