Patients with COVID-19 admitted to Intensive Care Units in Sri Lanka: Experience from a resource limited setting

  1. Imbulpitiya1; SWGJW. Chinthaka1; A. Galliyadda2; CV. Uduwela3; P. Alagiyawanna4; R. Withanage4; A. Mudalige5; TGNP. Wimalasiri6; ST. Kalhari7; U. Rodrigo5; C. Navaratne8; WDD. Priyankara9

 

1 Critical Care, National Hospital – Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka; 2 Emergency medicine, National Hospital – Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka; 3 Anesthesia & critical care, National Hospital – Kandy, Kandy, Sri Lanka; 4 Anesthesia & critical care, Colombo East Base Hospital (CEBH) Mulleriyawa, Colombo, Sri Lanka; 5 Critical care, Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka; 6 Critical care, Methsiri Sevana, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka; 7 Critical care, University Hospital KDU, Boralesgamuwa, Sri Lanka; 8 Critical care, Colombo East Base Hospital (CEBH) Mulleriyawa, Colombo, Sri Lanka; 9 Critical care, NHSL, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Live Virtual Presentation:
Dr B Imbulapitiya MBBS, MD, MRCP(UK), EDIC
Consultant Intensivist
National Hospital of Kandy, Sri Lanka

 

34th Annual Congress, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

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Introduction

COVID-19 pandemic due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARs-CoV-2) infection has made an enormous impact on lives of the world population. Sri Lanka has reported 154,786 tests positive COVID-19 patients and 1051 deaths to date (1)(2). Unavailability of data on COVID-19 related disease and intensive care management in Sri Lanka directed us to conduct this study.

Full abstract will be available after the publication…

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