Clinical guide for the management of critical care for adults with COVID-19 during the Coronavirus pandemic – UPDATED SECTION 5 CONTENT (recovery, respiratory failure)

16 August 2021, version 6

This clinical guidance provides contemporary information for practising clinicians caring for critically ill adult patients with COVID-19.  Whilst many of these patients will be cared for on intensive care units, some patients receiving continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP) and/or non-invasive ventilation (NIV) may be cared for on specialist respiratory wards.  Version 6 updates the previous FICM and ICS guidelines published in April 2021, section 5 ‘Management of respiratory failure’