Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2Àassociated disease (coronavirus disease 2019) poses a unique challenge to health-care providers due to the risk of viral aerosolization and disease transmission. This has caused some centers to modify existing CPR procedures, limit the duration of CPR, or consider avoiding CPR altogether. In this review, the authors propose a procedure for CPR in the intensive care unit that minimizes the number of personnel in the immediate vicinity of the patient and conserves the use of scarce personal protective equipment. Highlighting the low likelihood of successful resuscitation in high-risk patients may prompt patients to decline CPR. The authors recommend the preemptive placement of central venous lines in high-risk patients with intravenous tubing extensions that allow for medication delivery from outside the patients' rooms. During CPR, this practice can be used to deliver critical medications without delay. The use of a mechanical compression system for CPR further reduces the risk of infectious exposure to health-care providers. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation should be reserved for patients with few comorbidities and a single failing organ system. Reliable teleconferencing tools are essential to facilitate communication between providers inside and outside the patients' rooms. General principles regarding the ethics and peri-resuscitative management of coronavirus 2019 patients also are discussed.

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In patients with PAH receiving treatment with a parenteral prostanoid, survival was significantly associated with the number of guideline-recommended lower risk and higher risk criteria achieved at first follow-up.

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At a safety net hospital, patients who survived their initial sepsis hospitalization had a 30-day readmission rate to our institution of 22.6% that is comparable to rates described in prior studies. Readmission was commonly due to infection. Factors associated with readmission included multiple comorbid medical conditions, bacteremia, and being discharged with a vascular catheter. Further studies in this population are needed to determine potential modifiability of these risk factors in an attempt to reduce sepsis readmissions.