Rural Generalists
COVID-19 supports, including information on planning for surges, assessing and emergency care, for family physicians who may be providing a wide range of services and working in relative professional isolation.
- COVID-19 Testing Guidance (Ontario Ministry of Health) – See Section 3 for guidance for rural, remote and Indigenous communities
- Clinical Management of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection when COVID-19 is Suspected (World Health Organization) – Interim guidance for clinicians caring for suspected COVID-19
- Remote Consultations - Quick Guide to Assessing Respiratory Patients by Phone/Video (Adapted from The BMJ)
- COVID Field Hospital (CFH): Playbook (Uxbridge Health Centre) – Surge planning and related steps for extending community capacity and providing more hospital beds within a rural context.
- COVID-19 Resource Guide (Society of Rural Physicians of Canada) Collated by the SRPC Student Committee. Includes clinical assessment and decision-making tools, information on ventilators, PPE, protected code blue, protected intubation and more.
- COVID-19 Rural Med List Serv Resources (Society of Rural Physicians of Canada) Compendium of relevant ListServs collated by the SRPC, whose work includes representatives from all provinces and territories with fly-in communities to share concerns and advice.
Emergency Care
- COVID-19 Airway Guidance (Dr. Jesse Guscott | SCORE) – Compendium of findings, updated regularly.
- COVID-19 Airway: Clinical Resources - (Dr. Jesse Guscott | SCORE) – Checklists for airway preparation and intubation equipment, sequence for putting on and removing PPE, mechanical ventilation protocol and more
- EM:RAP COVID-19 Resources (Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives EM:RAP) – Free, open-access educational resources to support the EM community and their patients.
- COVID-19 Town Halls (Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians) – Town Hall discussions for emergency physicians, including a segment on rural and transport considerations
- Quick ICU Training for COVID-19 (Critical Care Education Pandemic Preparedness) – includes protected intubation, protected Code Blue, and intensive care unit practice
- Vent Basics from Non-Intensivists (ACVC/VAC) (Jessica Bunin) (video)
- COVID-19 Protected Intubation (Healthy Debate) (video) – Simulated urgent intubation of a suspected COVID-19 infected patient with enhanced airborne precautions.