2020
In this PicPod podcast, guidelines for the treatment of critically ill children are discussed by Martin Kneyber, a paediatric intensivist from Groningen in the Netherlands, Chair of scientific affairs of ESPNIC, and lead author of the just published guidelines on mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 children, and by Jimena del Castillo, paediatric intensivist from Madrid and chair of the ESPNIC resuscitation section.
Listen to the podcast here.
2020
ESPNIC webinar on non-invasive ventilatory support in pediatric patients affected by SARS-CoV-2.
Relators:
Alberto Medina Villaneuva, MD, PhD, ESPNIC Chair of Professional Development
Mireia Garcia Cusco, MD, ESPNIC Secretary
Marti Pons, MD, PhD, Chair of Respiratory Failure Section of ESPNIC
2020
In this podcast you can hear a discussion between experts from three Pediatric Intensive Care (PIC) around the world who have all been significantly affected by COVID-19:
2020
The aim of this ESPNIC webinar is to address key concerns of nurses working on Pediatric intensive Care Units (PICU) in managing COVID-19 ventilated patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 and to provide them with the latest evidence on the nursing care of COVID-19 ventilated patients.
The webinar included presentations by Dr. Lyvonne Tume, RN PhD Associate Professor in Child Health (PICU Nursing) University of Salford,
2020
In this webinar from Ilaria Capua, Director of One Health Center of Excellence, and Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, UF Professor and former CDC Director of Public Health Prepardness, provide a brief overview of the pandemic with commentary on different countries’ response and updates on the clinical data.
Take a look at the webinar here.
2020
In this presentation Professor Attilio Boner, Director of Paediatric Department, University of Verona, provides an overview on COVID-19 outbreak. Slides from 97 to 149 a focus on children and pregnant women.
Read the full presentation here.
2020
COVID-19 Online Education Program aims to provide healthcare professional facing the SARS-CoV2 outbreak with concise and clear messages, arising from an expert review of all available data, to help them make informed treatment decisions for their patients.
Among the speakers are our collaborators Anton Pozniak and Anne-Genevieve Marcelin.
There will be two opportunities to watch the COVID-19 Online Education Program Livestream:
Tuesday, 7 April
Wednesday,
2020
In this webinar of One Health Center (University of Florida), Professor Ilaria Capua explains the One Health approach, focused on co-advancing the health of humans, animals, plants and environment, using the frame of COVID-19 outbreak.
2020
The COVID-19 Chronicles is a series of educational illustrations about the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, created by Yong Loo Lin at the School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. At this link you can find 23 published strips highlighting things to know about COVID-19.
2020
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine launches a new course COVID-19: Tackling the Novel Coronavirus
Starting March 23rd, this is an opportunity to learn more about the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and its implications around the world.
Among the topics covered are:
– How COVID-19 emerged and was identified
– Public health measures for COVID-19 worldwide
–
2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In this interview Professor Ilaria Capua, Director One Health Center of Excellence University of Florida, provides an insight into the origin of Sars-CoV-2, its dissemination and an interesting analysis of the characteristics of our society that have accelerated the virus’ spread.
You can read the full interview on Lifegate here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]According to WHO, regular hand-washing is one of the simplest ways to protect yourself and others from getting the SARS-CoV-2.
MedicalAID Films, a UK based film production company, has created two educational films in multiple languages on hand-washing best practice for both communities and health workers.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Mr Tembo Comes Clean! Hand Washing in Communities is on hand washing and hygiene for community health education.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/171403449″
2020
Antwerp, Belgium – 11 March, 2020
The University of Antwerp has launched Rapid European COVID-19 Emergency Research response (RECOVER), in collaboration with 9 international partners. The launch comes in response to the impact of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Europe. This project was selected for funding by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 research framework and builds on many years of investment by the European Commission in clinical research preparedness for epidemic response.
2020
Virtual CROI 2020 dedicated a special session on COVID-19 to present state-of-the-art of what is known about COVID-19 and its causative pathogen, SARS-CoV-2. This special session focused on the epidemiology and efforts in China; the global epidemiology and effort to control the outbreak; the virology of coronaviruses overall, molecular aspects of transmission to humans, and pathogenesis in mice models and parallels in humans; and the NIAID/NIH efforts to study novel coronaviruses and develop diagnostics,
2020
Antwerp, Belgium – 3 March 2020
The EU-funded Platform foR European Preparedness Against (Re-) emerging Epidemics (PREPARE) has decided to upgrade its response efforts to the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic to Outbreak Research Response Mode 3, the highest response mode. This means that PREPARE will immediately initiate and implement clinical research studies on SARS-CoV-2 across Europe, it has been preparing for over the last month.
2020
BMJ Opinion, February 2020
The ongoing covid-19 outbreak has underlined the need for more research on the nature of panic and its drivers. The strategies we have for communicating about risk and engaging with communities are insufficient. We need to better understand the links between panic, rumour, fear, and anxiety. To what extent is panic universal or are panics in fact culturally specific? How precisely is panic linked to issues of trust—whether that is trust in the government,
2020
Antwerp, Belgium – 24 February 2020
Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infected patients have been reported in Europe for several weeks now and PREPARE has been monitoring developments very closely.
With ongoing clusters in Iran, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan and more recently in Italy, we anticipate further large clusters and possibly community-wide transmission in Europe and therefore are preparing our clinical research response accordingly.