Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals releases first “Comprehensive Textbook of COVID-19”

A comprehensive textbook with contributions from 80 healthcare workers across specialties dedicated to thousands of healthcare workers across the world who succumbed to the virus while caring for humanity

Apollo Hospital has unveiled first-of-its-kind “Comprehensive Textbook of COVID 19,” written and edited by Dr MS Kanwar, Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, along with 79 other co-authors who are senior healthcare professionals from various specialties.

To be available on Amazon, the textbook will revolutionise COVID care for healthcare workers across the world as it gives an insight into COVID 19-related clinical manifestations, state-of-the-art treatment and experimental therapies. The book has been put together basis statistical insights, scientific data and plethora of new reports gathered from the World Health Organization (WHO) and advisories issued by National Health Services of some of the most COVID-19 impacted countries across the globe.

The book not only encapsulates the challenges faced in COVID care, but also elaborates on vaccination for COVID and the line of treatment for immuno-compromised patients with varied co-morbidities and underlying diseases, along with other neurological, cardiovascular, endocrinal, renal and paediatric-related health issues. The various citations of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities to current literature would be useful not only to health specialists and resident doctors, but also for the medical students. For internists, critical-care specialists and all related medical and surgical specialties, this textbook will come in handy as a ready reference.

Speaking on the launch, Dr Prathap Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group, said, “The impact of COVID-19 on humanity has been unprecedented and the human, social, economic and emotional toll that this virus has left in its trail is one of both despair and hope. Despair for the millions of lives lost and hope at the spirit of human endeavour, our resilience as a race to collectively fight against this scourge with diligence, science and camaraderie. It is with this sense of diligence that 80 authors have contributed chapters for this book which is timely and well-conceived. The distillation of their learnings and experience forms the basis of this book. I would like to laud each author for taking time out to contribute to this book, while also taking care of their patients during these very demanding times.”

Elaborating on the book, Dr M S Kanwar, Senior Consultant, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, said, “The COVID pandemic was one of the most unprecedented crises which humanity has faced in the last 100 years. For over a year now, we have been battling COVID-19, and every day has been a learning. Healthcare organisations and workers have evolved every day since then to ensure that the best of COVID care is provided and best practices are adopted. With rapid developments and new guidelines every month on modalities and management of COVID-19, we thought it is essential to put together a guide that could give HCWs an in-depth understanding of the disease and everything associated to  pre- and post-management, along with related aspects like side-effects, long-term health problems and vaccination. This novel virus has left the whole world in a state of panic and especially the healthcare workers who had to fight it from the front lines with no clear understanding of the disease or its treatment in the early days. This was battle for them where they could themselves be the casualty, and so it happened with tens of thousands of HCWs having already lost their lives to this virus. I hope this book also becomes a ready reckoner for patients and their families to get detailed information from one reliable source.”