List of Priority Medical Devices in the Context of COVID-19, 13 August 2020

Abstract

The List of Priority Medical Devices in the Context of COVID-19 provides technical descriptions and specifications for the medical devices recommended for the management of patients with suspected and/or confirmed COVID-19 infection at different levels of healthcare in the following stages of care: 1) triage and initial care; 2) sampling for diagnosis; 3) early supportive therapy and monitoring of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) when COVID19 infection is suspected; and 4) treatment of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and septic shock.