Machines, tubes, wires, drugs, isolation, confusion… how can we protect the dignity and sanity of our patients when they’re at their most vulnerable? Dr. Wes Ely is a Vanderbilt professor and critical care doc... read more

While the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on respiratory problems and securing enough ventilators, doctors on the front lines are grappling with a new medical mystery. In addition to lung damage, many COVID-19 patients... read more

With an emphasis on the pathophysiologic basis of pulmonary disease, Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, 7th Edition, by Drs. Steven E Weinberger, Barbara A Cockrill, and Jess Mandel, provides a superbly illustrated introduction... read more

COVID-19 has dramatically altered our world, health care systems and supply chains. Older adults with cardiovascular disease especially those over 80 years suffer disproportionately. This pandemic has stressed the capacity... read more

The best medical treatment currently for COVID-19 is to simply assist the lung function with mechanical ventilation. Unfortunately hospitals are experiencing such huge influx of patients and do not have enough ventilators.... read more

This book discusses the interpretation of mechanical ventilator waveforms. Each page shows a screenshot from a real patient and explains one or two messages. It starts with basic information about the waveforms and goes on... read more

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, we’re learning more about the disease, what it does to the body and the damage it causes. Although many people with COVID-19 have no symptoms or only mild symptoms, a subset of patients... read more

The current COVID-19 crisis has a huge human impact. Clearly cardiovascular issues have a central role in management and, unfortunately, in adverse outcomes. We are continually struggling to understand risks and management... read more

Prediction models for covid-19 are quickly entering the academic literature to support medical decision making at a time when they are urgently needed. This review indicates that proposed models are poorly reported, at high... read more

Critically ill coronavirus patients are being inadvertently harmed by the very same breathing machines being used to keep them alive, warning Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell from Maimonides Medical Center, NY. In a video posted on... read more

The coronavirus pandemic is instilling chaos that is shaking the world. When intensive care units are running out of ventilators and essential medications, and some 95,000 people die in a matter of a few months, society panics... read more

Nurses all around the country are being cross-trained to work in higher acuity or critical care patient areas as fast as possible to maximize efforts against COVID-19. But as nurses step out of their comfort zones, there... read more

Older age was associated with greater risk of development of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and death likely owing to less rigorous immune response. Although high fever was associated with the development of ARDS,... read more

Between the asymptomatic cases and those in intensive care, there are hundreds of thousands suffering with covid-19. They have a constant painful cough, which prevents sleep. They cannot breathe properly and are intensely... read more

Many of us have been working under the paradigm that COVID-19 PNA eventually develops into ARDS in the sickest patients. It appears to me that these patients don’t fit into this paradigm. Many have normal to high compliance... read more

The Mount Sinai Health System in New York is one of many systems in the U.S. that has been adapting in the attempt to care for the influx of patients with known or suspected COVID-19. As elective surgeries are no longer being... read more

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS). The text reviews the emerging science behind the new PARDS definition; explores epidemiology, pathobiology,... read more

In this presentation, Dr Ravi Bhagrath, Consultant Anaesthetist at Bart’s Health, London asks Dr Kariem El-Boghdadly, Consultant in Anaesthesia at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London about the... read more

The frequency of clinically suspected nosocomial pneumonia was lower in the semirecumbent group than in the supine group. This was also true for microbiologically confirmed pneumonia. Supine body position were independent... read more