Management of Patients with COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), which was first seen in Wuhan, China in December 2019, caused a pandemic. According to the data of the World Health Organization, it has been reported to caused 6,566,610 deaths since the day it was defined. COVID-19 causes a wide variety of clinical conditions in adults, ranging from asymptomatic infection, mild respiratory symptoms, acute respiratory distress syndrome and multi-organ dysfunction to severe pneumonia. All these conditions require multidisciplinary patient care. Intensive care units (ICU) play a critical role for treating the most severe cases. In this process, it has been difficult for clinicians to meet the increasing need for hospitalization and intensive care, to provide clinical management of patients by following the current case approach. In our country, according to the constantly renewed COVID-19 guidelines of the Ministry of Health, the clinical follow-up of the patients was carried out. In this review, our aim is to present the management of patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19 who were followed up in ICUs.