COVID-19 Resources

The below compilation of resources is meant to provide knowledge to emergency care physicians fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disclaimer: SAEM does not imply endorsement of the the products, resources, or information linked to this page.

SAEM National Grand Rounds on COVID-19

• Lessons Learned from an Academic Health System in New York City (April 4, 2020)
• From Katrina to COVID-19: Emergency Care for the Underserved During Times of Crisis (April 29, 2020)

SAEM Pulse

• The May/June issue of SAEM Pulse will be dedicated to COVID-19 coverage from the front lines.

SAEM Foundation Grants

• COVID-19 Research Grant - Deadline June 1, 2020

COVID-19 Collections From SAEM Publications

Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM)

• Early Self‐Proning in Awake, Non‐intubated Patients in the Emergency Department: A Single ED’s Experience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
• Comparing Rapid Scoring Systems in Mortality Prediction of Critical Ill Patients With Novel Coronavirus Disease
• Containing COVID‐19 in the Emergency Room: The Role of Improved Case Detection and Segregation of Suspect Cases
• A Critical COVID Metric: Your ED Staff Infection Rate
• Senior Medical Students in the COVID‐19 Response: An Opportunity to Be Proactive
• COVID‐19: A Singapore Orthopedic Resident’s Musings in the Emergency Department
• Emergency Management of the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia in Specialized Branches of Hospital
• Hospital Emergency Management Plan During the COVID‐19 Epidemic
• Early Self‐Proning in Awake, Non‐intubated Patients in the Emergency Department: A Single ED’s Experience during the COVID‐19 Pandemic
• Ultrasound on the Frontlines of COVID‐19: Report from an International Webinar
• Characteristics of Emergency Department Patients With COVID‐19 at a Single Site in Northern California: Clinical Observations and Public Health Implications
• A Rapid Systematic Review of Clinical Trials Utilizing Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine as a Treatment for COVID‐19
• Ultrasound on the Frontlines of COVID‐19: Report from an International Webinar
• Characteristics of Emergency Department Patients With COVID‐19 at a Single Site in Northern California: Clinical Observations and Public Health Implications
• Unconditional care in academic emergency departments
• Symptom Criteria for COVID‐19 Testing of Heath Care Workers
• For us, COVID‐19 is personal
• “Conscious proning: An introduction of a proning protocol for non‐intubated, awake, hypoxic Emergency Department COVID‐19 patients”
• Information and Disinformation: Social Media in the COVID‐19 Crisis
• Diagnostic Performance of a Rapid Point of Care Test for SARS‐CoV‐2 in an Urban ED Setting
• D‐dimer triage for COVID‐19
• Testing Asymptomatic Emergency Department Patients for Coronavirus of 2019 (COVID‐19) in a Low Prevalence Region
• Prehospital Care at the Epicenter of a Pandemic: The New York City EMS Response
• Diagnosing COVID‐19 in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review of Clinical Exam, Labs, Imaging Accuracy and Biases
• The Fine Balance: Adapting Clinical Research into COVID‐19 Response
• Effect of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) Pandemic on the United States Emergency Medical Services System: A Preliminary Report
• Pulse Oximetry As a Biomarker for Early Identification and Hospitalization of Covid Pneumonia
• Novel use of home pulse oximetry monitoring in COVID‐19 patients discharged from the emergency department identifies need for hospitalization
• Guidance and Patient Instructions for Proning and Repositioning of Awake, Non‐Intubated COVID‐19 Patients
• My Family Didn’t Sign Up for This
• Letter to the Editor: D‐dimer and presumptive diagnosis of COVID‐19
• Response: D‐dimer triage for COVID‐19

AEM Education and Training

• COVID‐19: A Resident's Perspective
• Rethinking Residency Conferences in the Era of COVID‐19
• In Crisis: Medical Students in the COVID‐19 Pandemic
• Virtual Remote Attending Supervision in an Academic Emergency Department during the COVID‐19 Pandemic
• Advising Medical Students during COVID‐19: The Case for a Single Emergency Medicine Rotation for All
• COVID‐19: An Emeritus Faculty’s Perspective
• COVID‐19: A Faculty Educator’s Perspective
• COVID‐19: A Medical Student’s Perspective
• Medical Students in the Time of COVID‐19: opportunities and challenges
• The 2020 COVID‐19 Pandemic: Front Line Perspectives through Different Lenses
• COVID‐19: A NYC Department Chair’s Perspective
• Doctoring in the Time of COVID‐19
• Remodeling Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound Education in the era of COVID‐19
• Remote Learning in the Time of COVID‐19
• Zooming In versus Flying Out: Virtual Residency Interviews in the Era of COVID‐19
• Moral Distress During COVID19: Residents in Training are at High Risk
• Emergency Department Well‐being Initiatives During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: An After‐Action Review
• To Do, This: On Physician Training During COVID‐19
• Converting to Connect: A Rapid RE‐AIM Evaluation of the Digital Conversion of a Clerkship Curriculum in the Age of COVID‐19
• Joint Recommendations and Resources for Clinical Ultrasound Education Amidst the COVID‐19 Era

 ADIEM COVID-19 Resources

• How Racism Is Shaping the Coronavirus Pandemic | The New Yorker
• Coronavirus Poses Racial Justice Concerns In Every Aspect Of Society- Color Of Change
• How Coronavirus Affects Black People: Civil Rights Groups Call Out Racial Health Disparities - Royce Dunmore, NEWSONE
• Structural Inequity, Racial and Ethnic Disparities and Infectious Diseases: Are There Solutions?
• The Coronavirus Doesn't Need a Visa: COVID-19's Effect on Immigrant PopulationsMahsa Khanbabai, MS Magazine
• The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Racial Wealth Gap - Danyelle Solomon and Darrick Hamilton, Center for American Progress
• Why You Should Stop Joking That Black People Are Immune To Coronavirus - Brentin Mock, CityLab
• Asian-American Leaders Condemn COVID-19 Racism - N. Jamiyla Chisholm, Colorlines
• A Few Things For Nonprofits And Foundations To Consider In Light Of The Coronavirus - Vu Le, NonProfit AF
• When Blackness Is a Preexisting Condition | The New Republic
• The World After This - Motherboard Staff, VICE.COM
• Coronavirus Has Exposed America's Digital Divide - Nicole Aschoff, Jacobin
• When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus - NPR Code Switch podcast
• Coronavirus and Racial + Social Equity: Centering Justice During Times of Uncertainty and Four Things You Can do Right Now -The Justice Collective
• Colorado Wants To Ensure Coronavirus Won't Affect Low-Income, Minority Communities Disproportionately - Michael Booth, Colorado Trust and Colorado Sun
• Decolonizing Community Care In Response to COVID-19 - Jade Begay, NDN Collective
• Why Coronavirus Relief Needs to be Permanent - Megan Wildhood, YES!
• Structural Competency Webinar on COVID19 Part 3: Global Responses - YouTube
• Sinophobia: How a virus reveals the many ways China is feared - Tessa Wong, BBC News
• Ring the Alarm: COVID-19 Presents Grave Danger to Communities of Color - Hilary Beard, Colorlines
• Solidarity Economics-for the Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond - Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, The American Prospect
• Coronavirus is a Historic Trigger Event. We Need a Massive Movement in Response - Paul Engler, Wagning Nonviolence, Truth out
• This is not a Drill - Live - Organizing Upgrade and The Real News Network
• COVID-19: Why Are Prisons a Particular Risk, and What Can Be Done to Mitigate This? - Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
• Prison as the Problem, Prison as the Cure | Society for Cultural Anthropology

Maintained Resources

• Covid-19 and the Social Sciences | Social Science Research Council
• COVID-19 documents and briefings | Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
• Structural Competency Resources | Structural Competency
• Sociology of Disability & COVID-19 resource list | Laura Mauldin, crowd-sourced
• Feminist Resources on the Pandemic | Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy
• Public collection of COVID-19 Citations | Yale University Medical Library

Ultrasound Articles & Papers

• The impending storm: COVID-19, pandemics and our overwhelmed emergency departments
• Clinical Outcomes in 55 Patients With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Who Were Asymptomatic at Hospital Admission in Shenzhen, China
• Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A primer for emergency physicians
• Findings of lung ultrasonography of novel corona virus pneumonia during the 2019–2020 epidemic
• Under Pressure, One Italian Doctor Triages by Ultrasound
• Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound findings in novel coronavirus disease-19 pnemoniae: a case report and potential applications during COVID-19 outbreak
• A preliminary study on the ultrasonic manifestations of peripulmonary lesions of non-critical novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19)
• COVID-19 outbreak: less stethoscope, more ultrasound - A position piece in the Lancet
 

Ultrasound Podcasts, Lectures & Videos

• "Lung Ultrasound for Pulmonary COVID-19" - A narrated lecture on lung ultrasound for COVID-19
• Imaging COVID-19 With Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) - An interview with Mike Stone, MD
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound in COVID-19 - Lecture by Joseph Minardi, MD, WVU
• CORE Ultrasound - A video podcast on how ultrasound can manage your patients with suspected COVID
  • COVID-19 and Ultrasound, Part 1
  • COVID-19 and Ultrasound, Part 2
  • More on Apple Podcasts
• SonoSite Fujifilm COVID-19: Let Us Help
• Pulmonary Ultrasound and COVID-19 - recorded lectures in French, Portugese, Spanish, English

Ultrasound Educational resources

• SAEM EMTIDE COVID-19 Resources
• American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) COVID-19 Resources
• List N: disinfectants that work against COVID-19 - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• COVID-19 Lung Ultrasound Triage - A proposed algorithm to use ultrasound for triage in diagnosis from Butterfly
• ARDMS COVID webpage
• ASE COVID Resources
• RSNA COVID webpage
• Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) COVID webpage
• International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) COVID Resources

Information Sources for Emergency Care Providers 

• SAEM Collaborator Connection
Post your own study to find collaborators or search for studies to join! This database connects emergency care researchers across the globe.

• EM:Rap COVID-19 Resources
EM audio series full of CME and the latest reviews and perspectives
• Guidelines in Managing Cardiac Arrest in the Emergency Department During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center
Up-to-date, interactive map of coronavirus cases and information from experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness at Johns Hopkins

• American Medical Association (AMA) COVID-19 Resource Center for Physicians
• Nebraska Medicine Provider Resources
  • N95 decontamination using UV
  • N95 decontamination using UV – key points
  • Testing & PPE - Urgent and Emergent Cases
  • Proning Protocol
  • COVID-19 Room Cleaning Protocol - non OR
  • General testing protocol
  • Antiviral and Pharmacotherapy Information
  • 7UT – Adult Population
  • 7UT – Patient Transport Guidance
  • Immunocompromised patients
  • Clothing and attire when caring for COVID-19
  • Pregnancy and caring for COVID-19 patients
  • Decreasing aerosol-producing medical interventions
  • OR room cleaning protocol
  • Airway management
  • Airway management - pregnancy

Resources for the Public and Patients

• Coronavirus CheckerCheck your risk for COVID-19 based on best clinical practices, CDC guidelines, illness severity and risk factors like age and pre-existing conditions. Developed by the Emory Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response. #HealthDesign_ED
• Solidarity of Purpose
SAEM and eight EM organizations joint statement addressing what the public can do to join with EM providers to confront COVID-19, mitigate the pandemic, and minimize the loss of life.

• Sign the Petition to GetPPE to Providers that Need it
Healthcare workers across the world are demanding PPE. Join the call to action to help now. #GETMEPPE

• SAEM/AAEM Position Statement on PPE
SAEM signs onto AAEM’s Position Statement on Protections for Emergency Medicine Physicians during COVID-19

• SAEM Social Media Campaign: #StayAtHome #GetMePPE
Download and print this message here (http://ow.ly/Pu8G50yPXEz), take your picture, post on social media and share as broadly as possible. Be sure to use hashtags: #StayAtHome #SAEM #GetMePPE @SAEMonline 

• Marriott International invites first responders and support staff providing medical, relief, and support services to book designated hotels nationwide as a part of a community caregivers program

News and Updates

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Global Resources

• World Health Organization Latest Updates
• United Nations Coronavirus Disease

Federal Resources

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention – Public health information
• National Institutes of Health – Medical research Information
• Coronavirus.gov – The latest official information from the White House Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force
• USA.gov/Coronavirus – Learn what the U.S. government is doing in response to the virus