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Restoring Humanity In The ICU During COVID-19

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Restoring Humanity In The ICU During COVID-19

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

 
 
Heart and Lung Damage for COVID-19 Patients

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Heart and Lung Damage for COVID-19 Patients

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

 
 
Principles of Pulmonary Medicine

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Principles of Pulmonary Medicine

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

 
 
Palliative Care Considerations For Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Under COVID-19

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Palliative Care Considerations For Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Under COVID-19

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

 

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A Guide To Designing Low-Cost Ventilators for COVID-19

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A Guide To Designing Low-Cost Ventilators for COVID-19

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

 
 
Monitoring Mechanical Ventilation Using Ventilator Waveforms

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Monitoring Mechanical Ventilation Using Ventilator Waveforms

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

 
 
How COVID-19 Causes ARDS

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How COVID-19 Causes ARDS

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

 
 
An Interview With an Italian Intensivist on the COVID Experience in Italy

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An Interview With an Italian Intensivist on the COVID Experience in Italy

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 Diagnosis and Prognosis of COVID-19 Infection

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Prediction Models for Diagnosis and Prognosis of COVID-19 Infection

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

 
 
COVID-19 Patients Need Oxygen Not Pressure!

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COVID-19 Patients Need Oxygen Not Pressure!

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

 
 
ICU Doctors Already Know How to Get COVID-19 Patients Off Ventilators Faster

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ICU Doctors Already Know How to Get COVID-19 Patients Off Ventilators Faster

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

 
 
Top 5 COVID-19 Online Training Courses For Nurses

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Top 5 COVID-19 Online Training Courses For Nurses

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

 
 
Risk Factors Associated With ARDS and Death in Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia in China

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Risk Factors Associated With ARDS and Death in Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia in China

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

 
 
Richard Lehman’s COVID-19 Reviews

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Richard Lehman’s COVID-19 Reviews

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

 
 
Trying Not to Intubate Early & Why ARDSnet may be the Wrong Ventilator Paradigm

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Trying Not to Intubate Early & Why ARDSnet may be the Wrong Ventilator Paradigm

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

 
 
Cardiologists Join COVID-19 Front Line in Converted Cardiac ICUs

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Cardiologists Join COVID-19 Front Line in Converted Cardiac ICUs

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

 
 
Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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

 
 
Safe Airway Management for the Patient with COVID-19

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Safe Airway Management for the Patient with COVID-19

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

 
 
Supine Body Position As a Risk Factor for Nosocomial Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

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Supine Body Position As a Risk Factor for Nosocomial Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

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

 
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