Published date: May 13 2020

Journal Title: Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences

Issue title: SJMS Special Issue 2020: Competing with COVID-19 in Sudan

Pages: 5-8

DOI: 10.18502/sjms.v15i5.6983

Gamal Abdalla Ejaimigamalejaimi@hotmail.comDepartment of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Taiba Hospital, Kuwait

Zakaria Hassan ElrosassyDepartment of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Taiba Hospital, Kuwait

Sittelnissa Saeed AhmedICU, Asser Central Hospital.

One of the most serious complications of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is acute severe respiratory syndrome mandating intensive care admission and assisted ventilation [1]. Pneumonia, hypoxemic respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress (ARDS), shock, and multi-organ failure, are the most common complications of severe COVID-19, along with the complications associated with prolonged hospitalization – including secondary nosocomial infection, thromboembolism, gastrointestinal bleeding, and critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy [2].

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