COVID-19 Critical Intelligence Unit Updates

Daily Evidence Digests

July

Comparative clinical studies, cancer care, and disparities

Lung abnormalities, immunology, cardiac tele-rehabilitation

Digital pathology, fomites, health literacy, mobile-health

Serological tests, excess deaths, cancer care and surgical recovery

Frailty, intensive care, social distancing, and telehealth

Global perspectives, PPE training, stroke, podcasts

Loneliness, risk communication, screening pre-surgery

June

Infection control, high flow nasal cannulae, Twitter, influenza

Antibody tests, PPE, resuscitation, surveillance

Telehealth, comorbidities, depression and anxiety

Telehealth, comorbidities, depression and anxiety

Healthcare reform, lessons and innovations and research priorities

Artificial intelligence, masks, ethical dilemmas and exit strategies

Home pulse oximetry, transmission dynamics, and virtual hospitals

Genome, telemedicine, ethics, dexamethasone trial

Environmental contamination, vaccinations during COVID-19, research

Urology, diabetes, rheumatic disease, stroke, occupational health

Ethics, viral transmission, equity and ‘lockdown’

Telehealth, maternal complications and extra-pulmonary presentations

Mental health, drug repositioning, phone apps and homelessness

Antivirals, long-term intubation, bacterial co-infection

Testing, diabetes, ethics of drug repurposing, Google search trends, extended use and reuse of facemasks

Non-invasive and extracorporeal oxygenation, mask reuse, adapting care

Aerosol generating procedures, challenges for EDs, myocardial injury

Physical distancing, face masks, heart failure, research quality

Hypertension, mental health, staff wellness, system responses

Cancer, clinical trials, telehealth, and managing teamwork

May

Stroke, ‘outbreak rostering’, viewpoints on policy and clinical research

Cardiac imaging, frailty, 3D printed swabs and rural emergency care toolkit

Ventilation techniques, medical education, neurosurgery, smoking and nicotine

Cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and convalescent plasma

Daily evidence digest

Nutrition, conspiracy theories, supply chain management, cancer care

Clinical course, thrombotic risk, evidence-based virtual care

Non-COVID ED presentations, disability rights, virtual care in NICU and obstetrics, cancer

Safety of corticosteroids, infection control measures, climate and mortality risk

ICU modelling, nutritional risk, spinal cord injury, diabetes

Call for robust trials, convalescent plasma, screening, mortality

Steroids, triage algorithm, ventilator allocation, prognostic tool

Research informed strategy, equity, post infection immunity, symptom tracking

Triple combination treatment, NSW response, non-communicable disease

Screening and diagnosis, paediatrics, post-COVID strategies

Anticoagulation, community-based healthcare, and acute kidney injury

International lessons, emergency departments, acute stoke management

Telemedicine, ethics, equity and NATSIHWA collaboration toolkit

Drug treatments, restarting surgeries, and populations-in-focus

First Nations people, immunosuppressive therapies, stroke, remdesivir

April

Protective immunity, immunosuppressed patients, pathophysiology

Pregnancy, policy comparisons, influenza during COVID-19

Diabetes, kidney transplants, opioid dependence, COVIDSafe

Screening healthcare workers, nutrition and food safety, webinars

Modelling, epidemiology, suicide risk, preventing hospital admissions

Endotheliitis, ventilator demand, testing, infection control, the path forward

Views from oncologists, masks, wellbeing, exit strategies

Cohort study, telehealth, oxygen therapy, protective gowns, WHO guidance

PPE, updates from WHO, health messaging for Aboriginal communities

Emerging from lockdown, testing, treatments, and nosocomial infection

Respiratory and diabetes guidance, infection control and underreporting

Second-wave transmission, managing diabetes, pain

Diagnostic testing, addressing ICU challenges, correctional facilities

Virology, temporary hospitals, reorganisation of care, leadership

ACE-I/ARB continued use, CVD advice, burns, diabetes

NICE Guideline, mental health, telehealth, ethics

New guidance on emergency medicine, re-use of face-piece respirators, NSAIDs, podcasts, tiered staffing

New guidance for Aboriginal people, GP telehealth, surge capacity, model-based analysis of severity, vulnerable workforce

CPAP, neurosurgery, occupational medicine, surgery, gastroenterology, maintaining essential services, spirometry

March

New guidance, cardiac patients, rapid EBM reviews, ED, telehealth

Community health workers, elective surgery, hospital capacity, telehealth, de-isolation, modelling, clinical trials

Ethics, remote assessment, use of mechanical ventilation in UK, management strategies in China

Evidence Checks

Epidemiology, Transmission, Virology

Community transmission and hospital infection, stages of pandemic, immunity, and vaccination.

COVID-19 transmission risk on aircraft

Efficacy of cloth face masks for the prevention of COVID-19 transmission

Hydrotherapy and COVID-19

Nosocomial COVID-19 infections

COVID-19 infectivity and transmission in children

Sanitising and covering large medical imaging equipment

Modes of transmission for COVID-19

Winter and COVID-19 transmission Rapid

The effect of COVID-19 on healthcare workforce - infections

Symptomatology and Treatment

Pathogenesis, asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic, severity, seroconversion, drugs, and recovery.

Computed tomography use during the COVID-19 pandemic

Large vessel occlusion strokes in COVID-19 patients

Immunosuppression and COVID-19

Renal replacement therapies for COVID-19 positive patients in ICU

NIPPV and requirements

Fibrinolysis and PCI for STEMI

Inpatient management of COVID-19

Neonates and COVID-19

Non-invasive ventilation and inspiratory muscle training for spinal cord injury patients

COVID-19 testing before surgery

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines

Spirometry and transmission risk

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

Prone position for COVID-19 patients

Laparoscopy during COVID-19

Drug therapies and COVID-19

Medical college advice on COVID-19

Select international medical college advice on COVID-19

Surgical specialties advice on COVID-19

ECMO and COVID-19

Clinical Models of Care

Triage, virtual care, hospitalisation, palliative care, temporary hospitals, infection control, and ethics.

Conducting virtual respiratory assessments and monitoring via telehealth

Preserving consumer and patient partnership during COVID-19

Virtual care and telehealth for specific conditions

Reducing adverse impacts of people with a lived experience of severe mental health issues during COVID-19

Assessment and management of COVID-19 patients in the emergency department (ED)

Homelessness and COVID-19

Telehealth and COVID-19

Pulmonary rehabilitation and COVID-19

Diabetes care during COVID-19

Rehabilitation needs of post-acute COVID-19 patients

Intubation in the emergency department during COVID-19

Management of acute behavioural disturbance and COVID-19

Validated tools to diagnose respiratory illness via telehealth

Triage tools for ICU admission during COVID-19

Palliative care and COVID-19

Telemedicine in intensive care units – An evidence check

System Capacity and Planning

Infrastructure, hospital capacity, human resources, supplies, measurement and monitoring, surveillance, prediction, evaluation, and post-pandemic.

Extended use or reuse of personal protective equipment

The impact of COVID-19 on clinical education and training

Workforce reconfiguration

Guidance and underlying evidence about personal protective equipment (PPE) use during COVID-19

Domestic and family violence and COVID-19

Temporary shared accommodation (boarding houses, backpacker accommodation and hostels)

Mental health of healthcare workers

Tools to support communication between patients and families

Dedicated or temporary COVID-19 healthcare facilities

Thermal imaging for detection of fever

Personal protective equipment and intrapartum care for low risk women

Ventilation use for COVID-19 patients

Models for redeploying staff