Free online COVID-19 resources for health providers

The American Lung Association and Cleveland Clinic announced an educational collaboration to disseminate free, comprehensive resources on COVID-19 care for healthcare providers globally. The resources inform best practices to care for critically ill patients in a variety of clinical settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The robust inventory of online evidence-based modules and quick reference guides, developed by a multidisciplinary team of Cleveland Clinic experts, is hosted in Cleveland Clinic’s Respiratory and Education institutes’ Comprehensive COVID Care platform. The American Lung Association’s support of this comprehensive resource for healthcare providers is made possible through the organization’s $25M investment in the COVID-19 Action Initiative. These resources expand the organization’s existing science-based resources on COVID-19 for the public at Lung.org/covid-19.

“Too many lives have been lost to COVID-19. As our nation and world face the pandemic, our healthcare providers need and deserve support and advanced training specific to this new virus,” says American Lung Association President and CEO Harold Wimmer. “To save more lives and protect our frontline workers, we need to equip our nation’s healthcare providers with the most recent and up-to-date knowledge about COVID-19. The American Lung Association is proud to provide educational resources for healthcare providers about COVID-19.”

This educational platform assists interprofessional and interdisciplinary teams to standardize practices in the care of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The web-based learning platform provides up-to-date, relevant and easy-to-access information germane to the position where a provider might be deployed. The resource has been categorized into three groups:

  • COVID-19 caregiver resource for healthcare workers who provide care to COVID patients

Features ICU and non-ICU management guidelines to be used both in preparations for deployment and as a real-time management guide in the care of COVID-positive patients. Includes resources on different procedures for airway management, vascular access, mechanical ventilation and key modifications to current advanced care life support processes specific to the COVID patient experiencing cardiac arrest.

  • Approaches to the non-COVID patient

Addresses a wide variety of critical care and non-critical care topics appropriate for providers in both the ICU and non-ICU inpatient settings. These modules are intended to be used as a primer for pre-surge provider preparation and as refresher materials. Each major section includes both disease-specific and process-specific modules or guides.

  • Just-in-Time is intended to be used by providers as a care management reference guide. These provide quick access to a wide range of checklists, how-to guides and quick references on disease state, diagnosis, preventive measures and strategies for patient care and treatment.