Medicine Grand Rounds: Experience on Deployment in Guam Treating COVID-19 (Recorded Webinar)

Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education, Medicine Grand Rounds: Experience on Deployment in Guam Treating COVID-19 (Recorded Webinar), 12/11/2020 12:00:00 AM - 12/11/2022 12:00:00 AM,

Internet Enduring Material sponsored by the Stanford University School of Medicine. Presented by the Department of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. 

Main topic: Experience on deployment in Guam treating COVID-19. Topics include: background of naval organization, USS Roosevelt Incident, background as a reservist, US navy reserve medicine, mission in Guam and aftermath and lessons learned.

Updates: COVID-19: National surge. November is striking in numbers. Locally, bay area counties, every county curve is going up. Most counties are in the purple zone. Stanford, seeing increase both in numbers of cases and numbers of newly hospitalized. Census, numbers are climbing. Also discussed COVID surge planning at Stanford. COVID planning in General Medicine Wards: current: stable with existing infrastructure of 6 medicine house staff teams, 2nd phase: med consult team is 7th team, including weekend, 3rd phase: non-hospitalist back up from other divisions, 4th phase: If surgical volumes decrease so SCM and other providers can help with staffing. House staff are considered a vulnerable population and will not be part of surge planning unless we have a massive surge. Also discussed ICU surge planning, vaccine timeline.