Essential care of critical illness must not be forgotten in the COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

• ¹ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Electronic address: tim.baker@ki.se.
• ² Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Clinical Research Sörmland, Uppsala University, Eskilstuna, Sweden; Department of Internal Medicine, Nyköping Hospital, Sörmland Region, Nyköping, Sweden.
• ³ Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dodoma, Tanzania; Department of Emergency Medicine, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Denmark.
• ⁴ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania.
• ⁵ Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, PO Box 65001, Tanzania; Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• ⁶ Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
• ⁷ Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust, Blantyre, Malawi.
• ⁸ Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK; Regional Intensive Care Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Surgical Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Surgical Care Delivery in LMICs, BARC Hospital (Government of India), Mumbai, India.
• ¹⁰ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; International Forum for Acute Care Trialists, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹¹ Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
• ¹² Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi; University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi.