Stories Category: Intensive Care
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
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
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
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
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
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
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... read more
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... read more
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
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... read more
U.S. May Get More Ventilators But Run Out Of Medicine For COVID-19 Patients
As hospitals across the country fill with COVID-19 patients, medical personnel are sounding the alarm about shortages of drugs essential to those patients' care. "We have seen an increase in demand on pharmaceuticals that's... read more
COVID-19 Evolving Indications for Intubation
Hypoxemia and tachypnea should not be the sole indications for intubation, but rather a complete clinical assessment including work of breathing, mental status and increasing PaCO2 and/or acidosis. Based on experience... read more
A Brooklyn ICU Fights for Each Life in a Coronavirus Surge
Nearly every patient was on a ventilator. Some were in their 80s, some in their 30s. Medical workers were falling fast and had to be resourceful — "the alternative," one said, "is death." The night had been particularly... read more
Yale study finds self-isolation would dramatically reduce ICU bed demand
As soon as Alison Galvani learned of the COVID-19 virus in China and its devastating spread there, she foresaw what might happen to healthcare facilities in the United States. The Yale professor and colleagues at the... read more
BCG Vaccination Might Protect Healthcare Workers Against COVID-19
Australian and European researchers are testing if the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, introduced in the 1920s to fight tuberculosis, will be deployed to combat COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel... read more
US Betrays Healthcare Workers in Coronavirus Disaster
The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will go down as the worst public health disaster in the history of the country. The loss of lives will make 9/11 and so many other catastrophes appear much smaller... read more
Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
A veteran ER doctor explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history and present-day research of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for... read more
