id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-321234-2nkktokz El‐Ghazali, S. ‘Shielded’ anaesthetists and intensivists during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a reply 2020-07-06 .txt text/plain 455 25 49 We are aware that many colleagues, because of individual risk factors, have been community shielding, workplace shielding or have been undertaking duties vastly different from their usual scope of work. The Association has been involved in producing Vital Signs, a guide for anaesthetists seeking help and advice during the COVID crisis (https://anaesthetists.org/Portals/0/ PDFs/Guidelines%20PDFs/Vital_Signs_in_Anaesthesia2020. Sometimes guilt is socially useful, but we hope that colleagues will agree that those who have been quite rightly shielded by a responsible healthcare system should feel no guilt for this. We will continue to work independently and with other organisations to provide support to colleagues in times of difficulty. Subsequent guidance on shielding doctors returning to work will emerge and we encourage colleagues to keep an eye on the joint COVID guidance website (https://icma naesthesiacovid-19.org) and the usual social media channels. Shielded' anaesthetists and intensivists during the COVID-19 pandemic ./cache/cord-321234-2nkktokz.txt ./txt/cord-321234-2nkktokz.txt