Relevant Departmental Publications
  • Zuo T, Liu Q, Zhang F, Yeoh YK, Wan Y, Zhan H, Lui GCY, Chen Z, Li AYL, Cheung CP, Chen N, Lv W, Ng RWY, Tso EYK, Fung KSC, Chan V, Ling L, Joynt G, Hui DSC, Chan FKL, Chan PKS, Ng SC. Temporal landscape of human gut RNA and DNA virome in SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity. Microbiome. 2021 Apr 14;9(1):91. doi: 10.1186/s40168-021-01008-x.
    Free fulltext at: https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-021-01008-x
  • Fang S, Zhang L, Liu Y, Xu W, Wu W, Huang Z, Wang X, Liu H, Sun Y, Zhang R, Peng B, Liu X, Sun X, Yu J, Chan FKL, Ng SC, Wong SH, Wang MHT, Gin T, Joynt GM, Hui DSC, Feng T, Wu WKK, Chan MTV, Zou X, Xia J. Lysosome activation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and prognostic significance of circulating LC3B in COVID-19. Brief Bioinform. 2021 Mar 22;22(2):1466-1475. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbab043.
    Free fulltext at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7929326/
  • Joynt GM, Leung AKH, Ho CM, So D, Shum HP, Chow FL, Yeung AWT, Lee KL, Tang GKY, Yan WW. Admission triage tool for adult intensive care unit admission in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 outbreak. Hong Kong Med J. 2021 Jan 28. doi: 10.12809/hkmj209033. Epub ahead of print.
    Free fulltext at: https://www.hkmj.org/earlyrelease/hkmj209033.htm
  • Yeoh YK, Zuo T, Lui GC, Zhang F, Liu Q, Li AY, Chung AC, Cheung CP, Tso EY, Fung KS, Chan V, Ling L, Joynt G, Hui DS, Chow KM, Ng SSS, Li TC, Ng RW, Yip TC, Wong GL, Chan FK, Wong CK, Chan PK, Ng SC. Gut microbiota composition reflects disease severity and dysfunctional immune responses in patients with COVID-19. Gut. 2021 Jan 11:gutjnl-2020-323020. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-323020. Epub ahead of print.
    Free fulltext at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7804842/
  • Chan AKM, Rudolph JW, Lau VNM, Lo TSF, Choi GYS, Joynt GM. Rapid cycle system improvement for COVID-19 readiness: integrating deliberate practice, psychological safety and vicarious learning BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning Published Online First: 25 August 2020. doi: 10.1136/bmjstel-2020-000635.
    Free fulltext at: https://stel.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/25/bmjstel-2020-000635.info
  • Buléon C, Minehart RD, Bergot E, Chan A, Fischer MO. Pandemic chain of survival: Gathering strength to revive our societies. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2020 Jul 31:S2352-5568(20)30148-X.
    Free fulltext at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235255682030148X?via%3Dihub
  • Lui G, Ling L, Lai CK, Tso EY, Fung KS, Chan V, Ho TH, Luk F, Chen Z, Ng JK, Chow KM, Cheng PK, Chan RC, Tsang DN, Gomersall C, Hui DS, Chan PK. Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 across a spectrum of disease severity in COVID-19. J Infect. 2020.
    Free Fulltext at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163445320302255?via%3Dihub
  • Zuo T, Zhang F, Lui GCY, Yeoh YK, Li AYL, Zhan H, Wan Y, Chung A, Cheung CP, Chen N, Lai CKC, Chen Z, Tso EYK, Fung KSC, Chan V, Ling L, Joynt G, Hui DSC, Chan FKL, Chan PKS, Ng SC. Alterations in Gut Microbiota of Patients With COVID-19 During Time of Hospitalization. Gastroenterology. 2020.
    Free Fulltext at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016508520347016
  • Sprung CL, Joynt GM, Christian MD, Truog RD, Rello J, Nates JL. Adult ICU Triage During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Who Will Live and Who Will Die? Recommendations to Improve Survival. Crit Care Med. 2020 May 6. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004410. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32392017.
    Free Fulltext at: https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/FullText/2020/08000/Adult_ICU_Triage_During_the_Coronavirus_Disease.14.aspx
  • COVIDSurg Collaborative*. Global guidance for surgical care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Br J Surg 2020. DOI: 10.1002/bjs.11646. * Collaborative author, Albert Chan
    Fulltext at: https://bjssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bjs.11646
  • Warrillow S, Austin D, Cheung W, Close E, Holley A, Horgan B, Jansen M, Joynt G, Lister P, Moodie S, Nichol A, Nicholls M, Peake S, Skowronski G, Streat S, White B, Willmott L. ANZICS guiding principles for complex decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crit Care Resusc 2020 Apr 15. Epub ahead of print.
    Free Fulltext at: https://ccr.cicm.org.au/supplementary-june-2020/special-article
  • Choi GWS, Wan WTP, Chan AKM, Tong SK, Poon ST, Joynt GM. Preparedness for COVID-19: using in situ simulation to enhance infection control systems in the intensive care unit.
    Free Fulltext at: https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(20)30202-6/fulltext
  • Ling L, Wong WT, Wan WTP, Choi G, Joynt GM. Infection control in non-clinical areas during COVID-19 pandemic [published online ahead of print, 2020 Apr 8]. Anaesthesia. 2020;10.1111/anae.15075. doi:10.1111/anae.15075
    Free Fulltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/anae.15075
  • Phua J, Weng L, Ling L, Egi M, Lim CM, Divatia JV, Shrestha BR, Arabi YM, Ng J, Gomersall CD, Nishimura M, Koh Y. Intensive care management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): challenges and recommendations. Lancet Respir Med. 2020. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30161-2
    Free fulltext link: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30161-2/fulltext
  • Ling L, So C, Shum HP, Chan PKS, Lai CKC, Kandamby DH, So D, Yan WW, Lui G, Leung WS, Man CC, Gomersall CD. Critically ill patients with COVID-19 in Hong Kong: a multicentre retrospective observational cohort study. Crit Care Resusc 2020 [Epub ahead of print]
    Free fulltext link: https://ccr.cicm.org.au/supplementary-june-2020/original-article-covid19
  • Ling L, Joynt GM, Lipman J, Constantin JM, Joannes-Boyau O. COVID-19: A critical care perspective informed by lessons learnt from other viral epidemics. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2020 Feb
    Link: 20:S2352-5568(20)30029-1. doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2020.02.002.
    Free Fulltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352556820300291?via%3Dihub
  • Murthy S, Gomersall CD, Fowler RA. Care for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 [published online ahead of print, 2020 Mar 11]. JAMA. 2020;10.1001/jama.2020.3633. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.3633
    Free Fulltext: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762996
  • Joynt GM, Wu WK. Understanding COVID-19: what does viral RNA load really mean? Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 27:S1473-3099(20)30237-1. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30237-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32224308.
    Fulltext link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1473309920302371?via%3Dihub
  • Chan AKM, Nickson CP, Rudolph JW, Lee A, Joynt GM. Social media for rapid knowledge dissemination: early experience from the COVID-19 pandemic [published online ahead of print, 2020 Mar 30]. Anaesthesia. 2020;10.1111/anae.15057. doi:10.1111/anae.15057
    Fulltext link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anae.15057
  • Christian MD, Sprung CL, King MA, Dichter JR, Kissoon N, Devereaux AV, Gomersall CD; Task Force for Mass Critical Care; Task Force for Mass Critical Care. Triage: care of the critically ill and injured during pandemics and disasters: CHEST consensus statement. Chest. 2014 Oct;146(4 Suppl):e61S-74S. doi: 10.1378/chest.14-0736. PMID: 25144591.
    Fulltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012369215519909?via%3Dihub
  • Geiling J, Burkle FM Jr, Amundson D, Dominguez-Cherit G, Gomersall CD, Lim ML, Luyckx V, Sarani B, Uyeki TM, West TE, Christian MD, Devereaux AV, Dichter JR, Kissoon N; Task Force for Mass Critical Care; Task Force for Mass Critical Care. Resource-poor settings: infrastructure and capacity building: care of the critically ill and injured during pandemics and disasters: CHEST consensus statement. Chest. 2014 Oct;146(4 Suppl):e156S-67S. doi: 10.1378/chest.14-0744. PMID: 25144337; PMCID: PMC6679686.
    Free Fulltext: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6679686/
  • Joynt GM, Loo S, Taylor BL, et al. Coordination and collaboration with interface units. Recommendations and standard operating procedures for intensive care unit and hospital preparations for an influenza epidemic or mass disaster. Intensive Care Med. 2010;36 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S21–S31. doi:10.1007/s00134-010-1762-3
    Free Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849537/
  • Christian MD, Joynt GM, Hick JL, Colvin J, Danis M, Sprung CL; European Society of Intensive Care Medicine's Task Force for intensive care unit triage during an influenza epidemic or mass disaster. Chapter 7. Critical care triage. Recommendations and standard operating procedures for intensive care unit and hospital preparations for an influenza epidemic or mass disaster. Intensive Care Med. 2010 Apr;36 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S55-64. doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-1765-0. PMID: 20213422; PMCID: PMC4849534.
    Free Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4849534/
  • Sprung CL, Zimmerman JL, Christian MD, Joynt GM, Hick JL, Taylor B, Richards GA, Sandrock C, Cohen R, Adini B; European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Task Force for Intensive Care Unit Triage during an Influenza Epidemic or Mass Disaster. Recommendations for intensive care unit and hospital preparations for an influenza epidemic or mass disaster: summary report of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine's Task Force for intensive care unit triage during an influenza epidemic or mass disaster. Intensive Care Med. 2010 Mar;36(3):428-43. doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-1759-y. Epub 2010 Feb 5. PMID: 20135090.
    Fulltext link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00134-010-1759-y
  • Gomersall CD, Tai DY, Loo S, Derrick JL, Goh MS, Buckley TA, Chua C, Ho KM, Raghavan GP, Ho OM, Lee LB, Joynt GM. Expanding ICU facilities in an epidemic: recommendations based on experience from the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong and Singapore. Intensive Care Med. 2006 Jul;32(7):1004-13. doi: 10.1007/s00134-006-0134-5. Epub 2006 Mar 29. PMID: 16570146.
    Fulltext link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00134-006-0134-5
  • Gomersall CD, Loo S, Joynt GM, Taylor BL. Pandemic preparedness. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2007 Dec;13(6):742-7. doi: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3282f1bafd. PMID: 17975401.
    Fulltext: https://journals.lww.com/co-criticalcare/Fulltext/2007/12000/Pandemic_preparedness.21.aspx
  • Lee N, Chan PK, Wong CK, Wong KT, Choi KW, Joynt GM, Lam P, Chan MC, Wong BC, Lui GC, Sin WW, Wong RY, Lam WY, Yeung AC, Leung TF, So HY, Yu AW, Sung JJ, Hui DS. Viral clearance and inflammatory response patterns in adults hospitalized for pandemic 2009 influenza A(H1N1) virus pneumonia. Antivir Ther. 2011;16(2):237-47. doi: 10.3851/IMP1722. PMID: 21447873.
    Fulltext: https://www.intmedpress.com/journals/avt/abstract.cfm?id=1722&pid=48
  • Chan PK, Lee N, Joynt GM, Choi KW, Cheung JL, Yeung AC, Lam P, Wong R, Leung BW, So HY, Lam WY, Hui DC. Clinical and virological course of infection with haemagglutinin D222G mutant strain of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus. J Clin Virol. 2011 Apr;50(4):320-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2011.01.013. Epub 2011 Feb 16. PMID: 21330192.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386653211000424?via%3Dihub
  • Chan KK, Lee KL, Lam PK, Law KI, Joynt GM, Yan WW. Hong Kong's experience on the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for the treatment of influenza A (H1N1). Hong Kong Med J. 2010 Dec;16(6):447-54. PMID: 21135421.
    Free Link: https://www.hkmj.org/abstracts/v16n6/447.htm
  • Gruber PC, Gomersall CD, Joynt GM. Avian influenza (H5N1): implications for intensive care. Intensive Care Med. 2006;32(6):823–829. doi:10.1007/s00134-006-0148-z
    Fulltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00134-006-0148-z
  • Pereira JM, Moreno RP, Matos R, Rhodes A, Martin-Loeches I, Cecconi M, Lisboa T, Rello J; ESICM H1N1 Registry Steering Committee; ESICM H1N1 Registry Contributors. Severity assessment tools in ICU patients with 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pneumonia. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2012 Oct;18(10):1040-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03736.x. Epub 2012 Jan 20. PMID: 22264290.
    Free Fulltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X14611083?via%3Dihub
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