Challenging Cases of Severe COVID-19: Managing High Risk and Unvaccinated Patients

Program Overview

In this activity, an interprofessional panel discusses 2 real-world cases of severe COVID-19 submitted by our learners and offers their insight on how to best approach their care.

Credit Expired

Target Audience

This activity is intended for emergency medicine, hospital medicine, infectious disease, internal medicine, and pediatric clinicians (MD/NP/PA/Nurses) involved in the treatment of patients with severe COVID-19 infection.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

  • Incorporate emergency use authorization status and available clinical trial data into the selection of treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19
  • Integrate the unique roles and responsibilities of interprofessional care team members in the management of severe COVID-19 in hospitalized patients

Activity Faculty

Garcia-Diaz - Headshot

Julia B. García-Díaz, MD, MSc, FACP, FIDSA, CPI

Director, Clinical Infectious Diseases Research and MultiSpecialties
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine (Tulane University)
Associate Professor, University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School, Brisbane, Australia
Ochsner Health
New Orleans, LA

Patterson, Thomas - Headshot

Thomas F. Patterson, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Vice-Chair, Faculty Development
Professor, Medicine
Director, San Antonio Center for Medical Mycology
UT Health San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Winterbottom, Fiona - Headshot

Fiona A. Winterbottom, DNP, MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, ACHPN, CCRN

Advanced Practice Provider, Pulmonary Critical Care
Chairperson, System Critical Care Integration Council
Ochsner Medical Center
Ochsner Health
New Orleans, LA

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