Clinical Management of COVID-19: Conceptual Framework

Abstract

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. In the treatment of COVID-19, attention is focused on expensive, high technology equipment such as sophisticated ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which requires highly trained health care workers and aggressive pharmacological measures with weak evidence of efficacy (1). However, low-cost, primary health care has a higher life-saving potential.