CPR in Covid patients guidance

In case you haven’t seen them, please find some guidance on CPR both in the community and hospitals.  Whilst these are stated to be in relation to Covid–infected patients it goes without saying that Covid cannot be excluded in any patient.  You will note that in the hospital guidance CPR is to be treated as an aerosol–generating procedure, and so the appropriate PPE for this must be donned before entering the room.

All this has enormous implications for decisions on CPR in general practice and I’d suggest you look at these documents together with the recently forwarded ethical guidance from the BMA – link below.

https://beta.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/covid-19/ethics/covid-19-faqs-about-ethics