Resources for Mayo Clinic Alumni
AskMayoExpert COVID-19 Navigator
Mayo Clinic has elected to make publicly available the COVID-19 content we have created to guide our practice activities. Content has been reorganized and when accessed through the COVID-19 Navigator (link above) is updated regularly.
Content alumni have found here since March 25, 2020 is still noted below but is no longer updated regularly or may have been discontinued.
Research opportunities and updates
- Mayo Clinic Clinical Trials: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19)
- Mayo Clinic Laboratories COVID-19 Testing Resource Center
Podcasts and video
In the news
- Expanded Access to Convalescent Plasma for the Treatment of Patients With COVID-19
- Read the latest from Mayo Clinic on COVID-19
- Mayo Clinic helps form COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
Clinical Trials
- Convalescent Plasma Treatment for Patients with COVID-19 (added 04.07.2020)
- Mayo Clinic COVID Clinical Trials (added 04.07.2020)
PPE Educational Resources
The following are updated links to continuously updated content:
- Masks
- Eye protection
- Face shields and respirators
- Mask and shield reuse/recycle
- Gloves
- Gowns
- Pictorial guides and additional resources
The following links have been discontinued:
- Inpatient PPE Donning Doffing Pictorial (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- Outpatient PPE Pictorial (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- PPE Reuse Guidelines (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- PPE Checklist for Aerosol Droplet Isolation Precautions (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- PPE Combinations for Modified Droplet Precautions (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- Mask Collection Bins for Reprocessing (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- Inpatient PPE with Reusable Face Shield Pictorial (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- AGP with N95 PPE Pictorial (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- AGP with N95 PPE with Reusable Face Shield Pictorial (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- Masking Requirement FAQ (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
Respiratory etiquette and check-in screening tools
- International patient scheduling guide
- Symptom checking for all patients at check-in (updated 04.29.2020)
- Coronavirus screening tools – Epic quick reference guide
Evaluating for Covid-19
- When to screen outpatients (added 04.29.2020, formerly titled Phone Triage Screening Algorithm)
- There is a hyperlinked document (Instructions for Patient Testing) within this algorithm (updated 04.29.2020)
- Patient symptom algorithm
- Outpatient/ED management
- Inpatient management
- Does my patient need testing? Inpatient/ED (added 03.30.2020)
- Self-Assessment Tool (added 04.01.2020)
- ED – When to Screen ED Patients (updated 04.29.2020, formerly titled ED Direct Admission Algorithm)
- Obstetrics FAQ Regarding COVID-19 Testing (added 04.20.2020)
- OB COVID-19 Screening (added 04.20.2020)
Management of suspected COVID-19
- Isolation precautions: Modified droplet procedure – Rochester
- Pre-operative/procedural area: COVID-19 guidance
- Protocol for OR Turnover for COVID (added 04.01.2020)
- Extubation Protocol OR Procedural for COVID-19 (added 04.01.2020)
- Intubation Protocol for COVID (added 04.01.2020)
- OR Procedural Protocol (added 04.01.2020)
- Filters to Protect Anesthesia Machine for General and MAC Anesthesia (added 04.01.2020)
- Inpatient Nurse Manager Instructions for COVID-19 Positive (added 04.01.2020)
- IPAC (Infection Prevention and Control) Guidelines to Repurpose Masks Shields (link discontinued 07.01.2020)
- AGP PAPR Reuse Pictorial (link discontinued 07.01.2020
- Inpatients being discharged back to SNFs and and LCFs (added 04.10.2020)
- Positive Patients at SNFs and LCFs (added 04.10.2020)
- Screening Possible COVID-19 Infections at SNFs and LCFs (added 04.10.2020)
- Inpatient – Aerosol Generating Procedures (updated 04.29.2020 formerly titled Aerosol Generating Procedure Guidance)
Pharmaceutical (section added 03.30.2020)
- Inpatient Drug Regimens (updated 04.29.2020 formerly titled Chloroquine Hydroxychloroquine Conservation Guidance and Azithromycin Conservation Guideline)
Guidance for providers notifying patients
- Deferring elective clinic visits
- Notifying potentially exposed patients
- Notifying lab-confirmed patients
Process Flow Examples
- Mayo Clinic patient triage flow (including patient drive-through testing flow)
- Outpatient Release from Isolation (added 03.26.2020)
Operational resources
- Attendance, short-term disability and travel policies
- Pandemic planning grid
- Mayo Clinic travel guidance
- Midwest practice COVID-19 checklist
- Essentials of Surge Planning (added 03.27.2020)
- Occupational Work Related Screening (added 04.01.2020)
- Non Work Related Screening (added 04.01.2020)
- How to Coordinate Testing for Employees (added 04.01.2020)
- Supervisor Guidance for Testing and Diagnosis of COVID-19 OHS (added 04.13.2020)
Other Resources:
Created by Mayo Clinic alumnus Derek O’Keeffe, M.B. B. Ch. (ENDO ’15) and the National University of Ireland – this site is a free global crowd-sourced solution for local industry (such as universities, labs, veterinarians, dentists, etc.) who have PPE to offer donations of equipment to their local hospital. (This site has not been vetted by Mayo Clinic or the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association.)
About Linked Content
Linked content is shared as educational material only to assist with mitigation efforts during the current COVID-19 pandemic and does not constitute the practice of medicine. With information changing quickly, Mayo Clinic expressly states that information is provided “as is” and “with all faults” and will have no liability for outcomes from use of such information.
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