UMMC's COVID-19 Clinical Processes

In an effort to provide timely responses to requests we receive from medical professionals throughout Mississippi with regard to COVID-19, UMMC is providing access to the various protocols, procedures, processes, and checklists that UMMC’s Mississippi Critical Care Organization has developed for internal use at UMMC. These are not recommendations nor are they guidance for use outside of UMMC. UMMC is merely making these available in response to requests we have received. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and/or the Mississippi State Department of Health may have additional or conflicting guidance.

Patient treatment guidelines

• Management of Patients with Suspected SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
  Last update: September 9, 2021
  
  • COVID-19 Management and Treatment Algorithm- PDF
• Initial and ongoing lab and imaging guidelines
  Last update: April 17, 2020
• Anticoagulation dosing recommendations for COVID-19 patients
  Last update: September 1, 2021
• UMMC Guidance for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Version 2
  Last update: March 23, 2021
• ICU (COVID) bundle
  Last update: March 27, 2020
• Inpatient RRT
  Last updatet: April 17, 2020
• Intubation checklist
  Last update: March 30, 2020
• Mechanical ventilation and refractory hypoxia guidelines - PDF
  Last update: March 20, 2020
• Prone ventilation guideline
  Last update: March 17, 2020
  • Prone ventilation step-by-step guide
    Last update: April 17, 2020
• Home discharge guidance for suspect or confirmed COVID-19 patients
  Last update: March 23, 2020 
• Code Blue process
  Last update: March 17, 2020

Room, equipment and transport guidelines

• ICU room preparation checklist and processes
  Last update: March 17, 2020

• Anteroom disinfection process
  Last update: March 17, 2020
• ICU lab/specimen handling
  Last update: March 17, 2020
• Food service handling for suspected and confirmed COVID patients
  Last update: March 17, 2020
• Respiratory equipment removal process
  Last update: March 23, 2020
• Use of PPE during transportation of COVID-19 suspected or confirmed patient outside an isolation room
  Last update: March 27, 2020

Surgical/procedural guidelines

• Elective tracheostomy protocol
  Last update: April 10, 2020
• Non-ICU GI-pulmonary endoscopy process
  Last update: March 19, 2020
• ICU endoscopy protocol during COVID-19 pandemic
  Last update: March 19, 2020
• OB surgical emergency workflow simulations
  Last update: April 17, 2020
• Perioperative guidance for urgent operations on patients with proven or suspected COVID-19
  Last update: March 23, 2020
• Processes for laparoscopy in suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases
  Last udate: March 23, 2020

Blood product utilization guidelines

• Blood utilization guidelines
  Last update: March 20, 2020
• Plasma transfusion guidelines
  Last update: March 20, 2020
• Platelet transfusion guidelines
  Last update: March 20, 2020
• Cryoprecipitate transfusion guidelines
  Last update: March 20, 2020
• Procedural specific platelet and plasma guidelines
  Last update: March 20, 2020
• Resource utilization guidelines for trauma and severe hemorrhage
  Last update: March 20, 2020
• CMV-safe cellular blood products
  Last update: March 20, 2020

Medication conservation guidelines

• Critical medications – pain and sedation
  Last update: April 6, 2020
• IV alternative for COVID or PUI patients - PDF
  Last update: April 6, 2020

The documents and content on this website are informational only during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because new information is released rapidly, these documents can be updated or changed at any time. UMMC does not guarantee that the most up-to-date version will be published on this website. These documents are in no way to be considered as recommendations, guidance, nor standard of care and the content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The information in these documents is provided to inform Mississippi medical professionals of the processes put in place at UMMC with no guarantees, accuracy, or timeliness. All content in these documents and website are for informational purposes only and do not constitute the providing of medical advice.

Information is developed in collaboration with the UMMC Mississippi Critical Care Organization.