Covid-19 Treatment Simulations in the Actuality

 

You are a health care provider in a developed country. Several patients await your care. These patients are suspected of having Covid-19 and have been triaged by severity of illness. We recommend:

 

Once in the patient room, your task is to gather data, develop a differential diagnosis, order additional diagnostic tests, and treat the patient. Patient and disease factors and the choice and timing of treatments will impact the outcome of the illness. However, as in real life, sickness may prevail despite your best efforts.

 

You can also consult with several specialists in the simulation that may provide crucial life-saving information. Once you reach clinical stability, you will have the option to go to the call room until the end of your shift, but you may be called back if the patient deteriorates. You can also choose to conclude your shift and get feedback.

 

Consider starting with the Covid-19 Interactive Primer to learn basic concepts of managing floor patients who are suspected or confirmed of having Covid-19.

 

Each case may have different underlying diseases and outcomes if replayed. We encourage you to replay cases from this landing page, in particular critical and expert, and experience the spectrum of Covid-19 disease presentations.

 

Note for educators: We encourage the use of these patient encounters for synchronous or asynchronous teaching of clinical reasoning (diagnostic and management), both in groups or individually. The online nature of these cases is particularly suitable for remote learning. We hope you find these new resources to be useful in your teaching. The cases are under continuous development, any feedback, positive or negative, can be given through a survey and contacting us directly.