Clinical managements for severe covid-19 patients with pneumonia and acute respiratory distress: basic recommendation to reduce community mortality
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2), is a highly contagious disease. Most of the infected patients have mild symptoms including fever, fatigue and cough. But in severe cases, patients can progress rapidly and develop to the acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, metabolic acidosis and coagulopathy. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March 2020.