Saudi Heart Association, National Heart Center and National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Committee taskforce statement on CPR and resuscitation during COVID-19 pandemic

AbdulMajeed S Khan; Abdullah M Kaki; Abdulrahman R Bakhsh; Ahmed S A Hersi; Jameel T AbuAlenain; Jubara S Alallah; Fayez A Bokhari; Nasser AlQahtani; Bandar M AlKabli; Abdulrahman Al Qahtani; Nawfal AlJerian; Rashid AlOtaibi

doi:10.4103/sja.SJA_401_20

Saudi Heart Association, National Heart Center and National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Committee taskforce statement on CPR and resuscitation during COVID-19 pandemic

Saudi J Anaesth. 2020 Jul-Sep;14(3):365-369. doi: 10.4103/sja.SJA_401_20. Epub 2020 May 30.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Heraa General Hospital, Makkah Al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Consultant of Emergency Medicine, Ministry of Health Affairs, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Sciences, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Department of Pediatric, College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁸ General Manager, National Heart Center, Saudi Health Council, Medina, Saudi Arabia.
⁹ Consultant of Pediatric, Executive Director of Maternity and Children Hospital, Medina, Saudi Arabia.
¹⁰ Consultant of Emergency Medicine, Supervisor General of Emergency Services, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia.
¹¹ Consultant of Emergency Medicine, Supervisor General of Dispatch System, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia.
¹² Consultant of Anesthesia, Director of Academic Affair, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

Corona virus disease 2019 is a global pandemic, which affects around 2million individuals with a high death rate that exceeds 90,000 death cases across the globe. The Saudi Heart Association and the national cardiopulmonary resuscitation committee developed a taskforce to discuss the magnitude of clinical situation and CPR management on COVID-19 patients in a prehospital and in-hospital settings. Meanwhile, the taskforce aims to develop a nation-wide clinical guidance to be used by health care workers and untrained laypersons to resuscitate COVID-19 suspected and diagnosed patients.

Keywords: COVID-19; Corona virus; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; resuscitation.

Publication types

Review