Tag: infection
Use of High Flow Oxygen Therapy Devices During the COVID-19 Epidemic
Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) released a Central Alerting System (CAS) notice about the risk of a sudden pressure drop in oxygen supply pipes if demand through multiple wall outlets exceeds the... read more
Canopy Protects Healthcare Workers From COVID-19 Infection During Ventilation
Researchers have designed a cost-effective, constant flow plastic canopy system that can help to protect healthcare workers who are at risk of airborne coronavirus infection while delivering non-invasive ventilation or oxygen... read more
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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
Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers
The message is getting out: #StayHome. In this early phase of the coronavirus pandemic, with undetected cases accelerating transmission even as testing ramps up, that is critical. But there are many people whom the country... read more
COVID-19 Pneumonia: ARDS or Not?
Even though it can meet the ARDS Berlin definition, the COVID-19 pneumonia is a specific disease with peculiar phenotypes. Its main characteristic is the dissociation between the severity of the hypoxemia and the maintenance... read more
COVID-19 Has Them Scared to Go Home
There are no statistics on how many health care workers and first responders have passed the virus to their children, spouses, or parents. But, thousands of American health care professionals have fallen ill so far – over... read more
Oxygen Escalation Therapy and Noninvasive Ventilation During COVID-19
We are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many parts of the world have been ravaged by this virus, but disease severity varies significantly. There are several types of patients with COVID-19: those who have mild disease... read more
Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 in United States
As of April 9, 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had resulted in 1,521,252 cases and 92,798 deaths worldwide, including 459,165 cases and 16,570 deaths in the United States. Health care personnel... read more
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
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
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
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
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
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Prizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the history of viral infections that have ravaged humanity—and how that knowledge prepares us to stop the next worldwide outbreak. Over the... read more
