Revisiting electronic systems and gadgets for patient management in COVID-19 Intensive Care Units

Gadgets for COVID-19 ICU patient management

Abstract

Monitoring and highly sophisticated care of the Covid-19 pandemic patients has taught us many new lessons. The ever-changing management strategies and the therapies for the disease containment is one aspect of the wide spectrum of innovations and refinements, which were the result of global effort by the scientists and the healthcare workers; the self-protection of front-line workers soon became immensely important to save them from contracting the disease and thus prevent rapid reduction in their numbers. Personal protective measures were vehemently enforced and means and measures to reduce (if not eliminate) direct contact with the known as well as yet unknown Covid positive patients were advocated. Different countries adopted different measures according to their customs and resources, but all with the same purpose. This paper is written to highlight the same and present our approach at our center.

Key words: COVID-19; Monitoring; Surveillance; Intensive Care; Gadgets

Citation: Poonuraparampil JA, Karim HMK, Varghese AR. Revisiting electronic systems and gadgets for patient management in COVID-19 Intensive Care Units. Anaesth. pain intensive care 2021;25(1):5–7; DOI: 10.35975/apic.v25i1.1370

Received: 11 October 2020, Reviewed & Accepted: 25 November 2020