6 MAY COVID-19 ECHO clinic
Channel: Department of Medicine, UCT and GSH
Date: 07/05/2020

WEDNESDAY 6 May 2020:

COVID-19 ECHO clinic facilitators: Wendy Spearman and Mark Sonderup

INTRODUCTION: Graeme Meintjes

SPEAKERS
Mary-Ann Davies:
Western Cape Department of Health and UCT School of Public Health
“Brief update on surveillance of COVID-19 infections in the Western Cape”

Greg Calligaro is a respiratory and critical care physician from the Division of Pulmonology at Groote Schuur Hospital, and a researcher at the Centre for Lung Infection and Immunity of the University of Cape Town Lung Institute. He is the medical director of the thoracic transplant programme, and helped to establish the ECMO service at GSH.

His talk will revise key aspects of the pathogenesis of pneumonia and respiratory failure in COVID-19, and will discuss early insights into how this may be different from other forms of pneumonia, and “usual” ARDS. He will also provide guidance on oxygen therapy and ventilatory strategies including the rationale for proning) in patients with COVID-19 and respiratory failure.

PANEL TO ADDRESS QUESTIONS AND ENGAGE IN DISCUSSION WITH THE SPEAKERS:
Jenna Piercy: Anaesthetist and Critical Care Specialist, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT
Gary Maartens: Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT
Trevor Mnguni: Head of Medicine, Khayelitsha Hospital
Brian Allwood: Pulmonologist, Tygerberg Hospital/Stellenbosch University