This differential multi-ventilation setup yields increased safety, monitoring and control for each connected patient. In an ideal world, no one treating patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) would have... read more

In a South Korean ICU, nurses wearing heavy self-contained respiratory systems work two-hour shifts. South Korea has seen a great success mitigating its large COVID-19 outbreak. South Korea has 12.3 hospital beds per 1000... read more

Renowned microbiologist Dr. Martin J. Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human microbiome, where for hundreds of thousands of years bacterial and human cells have existed in a peaceful symbiosis that is responsible for... read more

Donor blood plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 appears to work as a treatment for the virus, a new analysis has revealed. In this preliminary uncontrolled case series of 5 critically ill patients with COVID-19... read more

The United States needs its health-care workers to see it through this crisis. But there are no replacements on the shelf. They can’t be built, trained, or repurposed from other jobs. Unless the country does dramatically... read more

Anesthesiologists are crucial in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, with their role encompassing anesthesia, intensive care, pain treatment and more. The job is of high risk, with medical staff at risk of getting infected... read more

Hospitals in New York City are gearing up to use the blood of people who have recovered from COVID-19 as a possible antidote for the disease. Researchers hope that the century-old approach of infusing patients with the antibody-laden... read more

A riveting memoir of one woman’s extraordinary effort to save her husband’s life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more. Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband,... read more

Whether you are the ultrasound educational lead for your hospital/ trust, a routine user or interested novice we’re sure that you will have seen lots of exciting data on twitter (using the #POCUSforCOVID hashtag), suggesting... read more

The genome’s been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost... read more

No matter where you practice emergency medicine there will be, or has been, capacity problems in the COVID-19 crisis. Even if we “flatten the COVID-19 curve” there will be a load on the systems that exceeds our... read more

Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU) at Emory is participating in a clinical trial to test an experimental vaccine for COVID-19. The trial began March 16 at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in... read more

We wish to share the protocol that we use in our hospital in preparing an operating room (OR) for confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients coming for surgery. An OR with a negative pressure environment located at a corner... read more

Dear President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Ambassador Birx: Thank you for actively engaging the health care community—particularly the nation’s physicians and the organizations that represent them—in addressing... read more

The Association of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Intensive Care Society and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine are aware of their members’ significant concerns about their own health and... read more

Clinical pathologists, infectious disease physicians and scientists at the UC Davis Medical Center, School of Medicine, California National Primate Research Center and Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases are collaborating... read more

High quality prompt care of all people with hip and other fragility fractures is a key component of helping with patient outcomes and bed occupancy during the coronavirus pandemic. Anaesthetists have a key role in ensuring... read more

Desperate to free up beds for only the sickest COVID-19 patients, hospitals nationwide are weighing the use of new technologies to monitor patients from their homes. Physicians at several hospitals said their discussions... read more

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma. As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones,... read more

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is applied worldwide to patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure. It is often applied as an attempt to avoid invasive mechanical ventilation. However, the application of NIV is often ad hoc... read more