Authors
Aryeh Shander, Susan M Goobie, Matthew A Warner, Matti Aapro, Elvira Bisbe, Angel A Perez-Calatayud, Jeannie Callum, Melissa M Cushing, Wayne B Dyer, Jochen Erhard, David Faraoni, Shannon Farmer, Tatyana Fedorova, Steven M Frank, Bernd Froessler, Hans Gombotz, Irwin Gross, Nicole R Guinn, Thorsten Haas, Jeffrey Hamdorf, James P Isbister, Mazyar Javidroozi, Hongwen Ji, Young-Woo Kim, Daryl J Kor, Johann Kurz, Sigismond Lasocki, Michael F Leahy, Cheuk-Kwong Lee, Jeong Jae Lee, Vernon Louw, Jens Meier, Anna Mezzacasa, Manuel Munoz, Sherri Ozawa, Marco Pavesi, Nina Shander, Donat R Spahn, Bruce D Spiess, Jackie Thomson, Kevin Trentino, Christoph Zenger, Axel Hofmann
Publication date
2020/7/1
Source
Anesthesia & Analgesia
Volume
131
Issue
1
Pages
74-85
Publisher
LWW
Description
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a pandemic. Global health care now faces unprecedented challenges with widespread and rapid human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and high morbidity and mortality with COVID-19 worldwide. Across the world, medical care is hampered by a critical shortage of not only hand sanitizers, personal protective equipment, ventilators, and hospital beds, but also impediments to the blood supply. Blood donation centers in many areas around the globe have mostly closed. Donors, practicing social distancing, some either with illness or undergoing self-quarantine, are quickly diminishing. Drastic public health initiatives have focused on containment and “flattening the curve” while invaluable resources are being depleted. In some …
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