COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the Frontline

ISBN-13: 9780323828604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Jorge Hidalgo; Gloria Rodríguez-Vega; Javier P?rez-Fern?ndez

Spis treści

The Sudden Appearance of SARS-CoV2

COVID-19 and Disaster Preparedness

COVID-19: A Patient's Perspective

COVID-19: A Family's Perspective

COVID-19: A Healthcare Provider's Perspective

Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Inequity in the Face of a Crisis

COVID-19 and Risk Exposure of the Frontline: Heroes or Martyrs?

COVID-19 and the Role of Medical Professional Societies

COVID-19: Treatment and Trials

COVID-19 and Government Decision Making

COVID-19: Lockdown or not?

COVID-19: Politics and Health

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Oil Industry

Millennials and the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19: Data Collection and Transparency Among Countries

Brazil's Battle Against COVID-19

The Disproportionate Burden of COVID-19 in Africa

How the Middle East is Facing COVID-19

The COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Life after COVID-19: future directions?

O autorze

Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize, Central America. He is the President Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. He has won several awards with the highest recognition and the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course hosted by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine he received the Presidential Citation Award. And Global Safar Award, becoming the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Nomination. He is involved in numerous congresses and a well-recognized international speaker. Dr. Javier Perez-Fernandez serves as Medical Director of the Critical Care Services at Baptist Hospital of Miami. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Professor Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Larkin University, Miami-Dade Florida. He is the Secretary-General of the World Federation of Intensive Care.
Dr. Perez-Fernandez manages a large group of critical care physicians, South Florida Critical Care Services, overseeing the operations of seven ICUs with over 350 beds. He has been a regional and national recognized leader during the COVID-19 pandemic with multiple TV and media appearances and consulting services for several national and international organizations. He has been directly involved in the development of Rapid Response Teams, technology implementation and "open ICU” models. He has lectured worldwide and author of many original publications with the Society of Critical Care Medicine.