Covid-19 Resources for Smile Train Partners

We are pleased to share these resources with our partners and hope they will be useful. We are not specifically endorsing any of the resources below. 

Telehealth Resources For Comprehensive Cleft Care Programs

• An Introduction to Telehealth
• How to Get Started including “Tips and Tricks” for Practitioners and Patients
• How to Receive Smile Train Support - Please contact your local Smile Train manager (or partner@smiletrain.org) to share the program you would like to start. You will need to apply for a "special grant" through our online database and, if awarded, report a regular tracking form on your telehealth activities.
• Helpful Links from the American Medical Association, Telehealth Association and Others

PPE, Equipment, Supplies

• COVID Mask Alternative

  The University of Florida Health’s department of anesthesiology has developed 2 prototypes for masks that can be produced in large quantities using materials already found in hospitals and medical facilities.

• APSF/ASA Guidance on Purposing Anesthesia Machines as ICU Ventilators
• Donning and Doffing PPE
  • Poster (8.5 x 11) CDC Fact sheet: How to put it on and take off PPE (also available in 11 x 17 format)

• Strategies to Conserve PPE

  • WHO: Rational use of personal protective equipment for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and considerations during severe shortages
  • Recommendations by Partners in Health for optimizing PPE
  • Low-cost Solutions to Create or Extend the Use of PPEs
  • N95 masks - Sterilization and Reuse Efficacy, Extended Use and Reuse
• Ideas to Create Your Own “N95” Face Mask and Shield
• Centers for Disease Control Guidance Documents for COVID-19 - Comprehensive CDC website on Optimizing of PPE and Equipment (Frequently updated guidance)
  • Decontamination and Reuse of Filtering Facepiece Respirators
  • Strategies to Optimize the Supply of PPE and Equipment
• Do it Yourself Hand Sanitizer
• Listening Device for Socially Distanced Speech Therapy by Dr. Olusanya

Treating Patients with Covid-19

• CDC Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed COVID-19
• WHO Guidelines for Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection with COVID-19
• WHO COVID-19: Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak

Training for Non-ICU clinicians treating ventilated patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Basics of Mechanical Ventilation for Non-Critical Care MDs (one-page cheat sheet offered by SAGES)
• Critical care for Non-ICU clinicians (free online course offered by the Society for Critical Care Medicine)
• WHO Training for LMIC providers: Online training modules on diagnostics, ventilator/critical care management (OpenWHO sign in required, free, straightforward)

Anesthesia Resources

• WFSA Corona Virus Guide for Anesthesia Providers

• Creative low-resource solutions to creating barriers to protect the anesthesia provider during intubation and extubation:

  • Aerosol Block
  • Intubate in a Bag Technique, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Intubation box and Face Shield, Burundi
  • Clear plastic barrier and Perspex box barriers, Harare Children’s Hospital, Zimbabwe

Dental Resources

• CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings
• American Dental Association: What constitutes a dental emergency during COVID-19
• American Dental Association: Seeing patients during COVID-19

Additional Provider Resources

• WHO Recommendations on Hand Washing
• CDC Recommendations on Hand Sanitizer Use and Making Your Own
• EPA: List N: Products with Emerging Viral Pathogens AND Human Coronavirus claims for use against SARS-CoV-2 Date Accessed: 03/23/2020
• Physician well-being
• WHO: Ethics and COVID-19 - resource allocation and priority-setting
• Partners in Health - Clinical Management of COVID-19 - Comprehensive guidelines on the clinical management of COVID-19 patients in resource-limited settings. Updated often.