Update Book

Section 1: SARS-CoV-2

• Virology
• Variants

Section 2: Epidemiology

• Pandemic
• Transmission

Section 3: Pathophysiology

• Pathogenesis
• Types of Lung involvement
• Effects on other Organ systems - Covid19 "a systemic disease"
• Factors related to Severity of COVID-19

Section 4: Diagnosis

• Diagnostic challenges with conventional methods
• Novel diagnostic approaches
• Imaging in Covid 19
• Investigation and follow up tools for treatment modification and prognostication

Section 5: Organization for pandemic

• Structure, process modifications for preparedness
• Protection of the Health care workers
• Risk Planning and Resource management

Section 6: Management

• Risk and severity assessmentof individual cases
• Current position of -
  • Antiviral therapy
  • Immune modulation
  • Adjuvant therapies
• Respiratory support in Covid19
  • Methods of oxygen therapy and targets
  • Non Invasive ventilation (NIV/HFNC)
  • Invasive Mechanical Ventilation
• Strategies to improve oxygenation
  • Proning
  • Refractory hypoxemia
  • Role of ECMO
• Venous thromboembolism - Risk assessment, prevention and treatment
• Appropriate timing of therapy
  • Medications
  • Interventions
• Essentials of DON'TS in COVID-19

Section 7: Extra respiratory involvement of COVID19

• Neurological involvement
• Cardiovascular involvement
• Renal involvement
• Hematologic involvement
• Gastro-intestinal and Hepatic involvement

Section 8: Critical Care Pearls

• Role of Standard Critical Care Practices
• Infection control
• Current concepts of Antimicrobial therapy
• Antimicrobial stewardship during COVID-19
• Air leak during COVID-19
• Communication and End-of-life care.
• Visiting Policy

Section 9: Long or Post COVID-19 Syndrome

• New or Ongoing symptoms or disease
• Multi Organ sequeale of COVID-19
• Debilitating opportunistic infections
  • Mucormycosis
  • Aspergilosis
• Viral relapse or reinfection / Inflammatory rebound
• Effects of prolonged hospitalization
• Psychological and Economic burden

Section 10: COVID-19 in special situations

• Management of Covid19 in pregnant women
• COVID-19 in Neonates and Infants
• Management of a covid19 patient requiring surgery or urgent invasive interventions
• Management of COVID-19 in immunocompromised

Section 11: Home care and Rehabilitation

• Home oxygen therapy
• Physical and Mental rehabilitation

Section 12: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination

• Current Vaccines and their efficacy
• Side effects
• Breakthrough infections: diagnosis and management

Section 13: COVID-19 timeline -

From Wuhan to the present (Should come in the starting)

Section 15: Future challenges

• Ongoing research on therapeutics for COVID-19
• New Normal in Intensive Care Unit

Section 16:

Summary of andmark Clinical trials related to COVID-19

Section 17:

Some thought provoking cases that we encountered (can be added to Critical Care pearls)

Section 18:

What have we learnt and are still learning from this Pandemic?