Close air support: enhancing emergency care in the COVID-19 pandemic

Low, Tze Yi; Mathews, Ian; Lau, Joel; Ngiam, Kee Yuan

doi:10.1136/emermed-2020-210148

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“…Nos EUA, foi analisado a proporção do uso do 911 no período de surto da pandemia da COVID-19, onde mostrou uma redução no número de chamadas recebidas e duplicou o número de mortes do mesmo serviço. Essa estratégia unida à utilização de suporte aéreo nos departamentos de urgência e emergência resultou em uma melhora no atendimento local (Lerner, Newgard & Mann, 2020;Low, Mathews, Liang-Lau & Ngiam, 2020).…”

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Urgência e emergência em tempos de COVID-19 – uma revisão integrativa da literatura

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O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar as mudanças ocorridas no atendimento hospitalar de urgência e emergência durante a pandemia do COVID-19 e elaboração de estratégias para prevenir os riscos de colapso dos serviços de saúde. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura sendo pesquisados estudos científicos entre os meses de setembro e outubro de 2020, nas bases de dados PubMed, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde do Ministério da Saúde e Google Acadêmico, com os descritores “atendimento”, “emergência”, “COVID-19” e “pandemia”. Foram encontrados 689 artigos nas três bases de dados sendo selecionados 28 estudos que abordavam a temática discutida, para elaboração da revisão sendo eles em português inglês e espanhol. Os estudos trouxeram informações sobre as modificações epidemiológicas nos departamentos de urgência e emergência, evidenciando um novo perfil de atendimento, mostrando a forma e estratégias que os epicentros da pandemia no mundo e o Brasil se organizaram. Destaca-se que através da literatura cientifica foi possível identificar as principais mudanças ocorridas no atendimento de urgência e emergência, além de adaptações nos setores hospitalares e na criação de novos ambulatórios para diminuir a sobrecarga dos serviços de saúde, consequentemente, evitando o seu colapso.

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Urgência e emergência em tempos de COVID-19 – uma revisão integrativa da literatura

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Overview of Technologies Implemented During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

Abd‐Alrazaq¹,

Hassan²,

Abuelezz³

et al. 2021

J Med Internet Res

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Background Technologies have been extensively implemented to provide health care services for all types of clinical conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. While several reviews have been conducted regarding technologies used during the COVID-19 pandemic, they were limited by focusing either on a specific technology (or features) or proposed rather than implemented technologies. Objective This review aims to provide an overview of technologies, as reported in the literature, implemented during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We conducted a scoping review using PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses) Extension for Scoping Reviews. Studies were retrieved by searching 8 electronic databases, checking the reference lists of included studies and relevant reviews (backward reference list checking), and checking studies that cited included studies (forward reference list checking). The search terms were chosen based on the target intervention (ie, technologies) and the target disease (ie, COVID-19). We included English publications that focused on technologies or digital tools implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide health-related services regardless of target health condition, user, or setting. Two reviewers independently assessed the eligibility of studies and extracted data from eligible papers. We used a narrative approach to synthesize extracted data. Results Of 7374 retrieved papers, 126 were deemed eligible. Telemedicine was the most common type of technology (107/126, 84.9%) implemented in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the most common mode of telemedicine was synchronous (100/108, 92.6%). The most common purpose of the technologies was providing consultation (75/126, 59.5%), followed by following up with patients (45/126, 35.7%), and monitoring their health status (22/126, 17.4%). Zoom (22/126, 17.5%) and WhatsApp (12/126, 9.5%) were the most commonly used videoconferencing and social media platforms, respectively. Both health care professionals and health consumers were the most common target users (103/126, 81.7%). The health condition most frequently targeted was COVID-19 (38/126, 30.2%), followed by any physical health conditions (21/126, 16.7%), and mental health conditions (13/126, 10.3%). Technologies were web-based in 84.1% of the studies (106/126). Technologies could be used through 11 modes, and the most common were mobile apps (86/126, 68.3%), desktop apps (73/126, 57.9%), telephone calls (49/126, 38.9%), and websites (45/126, 35.7%). Conclusions Technologies played a crucial role in mitigating the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. We did not find papers describing the implementation of other technologies (eg, contact-tracing apps, drones, blockchain) during the first wave. Furthermore, technologies in this review were used for other purposes (eg, drugs and vaccines discovery, social distancing, and immunity passport). Future research on studies on these technologies and purposes is recommended, and further reviews are required to investigate technologies implemented in subsequent waves of the pandemic.

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Overview of Technologies Implemented During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review (Preprint)

Abd‐Alrazaq¹,

Hassan²,

Abuelezz³

et al. 2021

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BACKGROUND Technology has been extensively implemented in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). While several reviews were conducted regarding technologies used during COVID-19, they were limited either by focusing on a certain technology or feature, or by technology that was proposed rather than implemented. OBJECTIVE This review aims to explore the features of technologies implemented during the first wave of COVID-19 as reported in the literature. METHODS The authors conducted a scoping review following the guidelines of PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Studies were retrieved through searching 8 electronic databases and conducting backward and forward reference list checking. Two reviewers independently assessed the eligibility of studies and extracted data from the included articles. We then used a narrative approach to synthesize the extracted data. RESULTS Of 7,374 retrieved studies, 126 were deemed eligible. Telemedicine was the most common type of technology (85%) implemented in the first wave of COVID-19. The most common mode of telemedicine was synchronous (93.5%). The most common purpose of the technologies was providing consultation (59.5%), followed by following up with patients (35.7%) and monitoring their health status (17.4%). Zoom (17.5%) and WhatsApp (9.5%) were the most common social media and video-conferencing platforms. Both healthcare professionals and health consumers were the most common target users (81.7%). The health condition most frequently targeted by the implemented technologies was COVID-19 (30.2%), followed by any physical health conditions (16.7%) and mental health conditions (10.3%). Technologies were web-based in 84.1% of the included studies. Technologies in the included studies could be used through 11 venues. The most common venue of technologies was mobile applications (68.3%), followed by desktop applications (57.9%), telephone calls (38.9%), and websites (35.7%). CONCLUSIONS Technology played a crucial role in mitigating the COVID-19 challenges. Our review did not find other technologies that were implemented during the first wave of COVID-19 (e.g., contact-tracing apps, drones, blockchain). Further, technologies in this review were used for other purposes (e.g., drugs and vaccines discovery, social distancing, and immunity passport). Future research on studies about such technologies and purposes is recommended. Further reviews are required to investigate technologies implemented in the following waves of COVID-19.

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Close air support: enhancing emergency care in the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Urgência e emergência em tempos de COVID-19 – uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Urgência e emergência em tempos de COVID-19 – uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Overview of Technologies Implemented During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review

Overview of Technologies Implemented During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review (Preprint)

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