• Ramandeep Kaur, Tyler T Weiss, Andrew Perez, James B Fink, Rongchang Chen, Fengming Luo, Zongan Liang, Sara Mirza, and Jie Li.
• Division of Respiratory Care, Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, 1620 W Harrison St, Tower LL1202, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA.
• Crit Care. 2020 Sep 23; 24 (1): 571.

AbstractCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an emerging viral infection that is rapidly spreading across the globe. SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the same coronavirus class that caused respiratory illnesses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). During the SARS and MERS outbreaks, many frontline healthcare workers were infected when performing high-risk aerosol-generating medical procedures as well as when providing basic patient care. Similarly, COVID-19 disease has been reported to infect healthcare workers at a rate of ~ 3% of cases treated in the USA. In this review, we conducted an extensive literature search to develop practical strategies that can be implemented when providing respiratory treatments to COVID-19 patients, with the aim to help prevent nosocomial transmission to the frontline workers.

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