Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital

Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital

What would you do if you discovered that the media and the government were lying to us all? And that hundreds, maybe thousands of people were dying because of it? Army combat veteran and registered nurse Erin Olszewski’s... read more

Use of Procalcitonin During the First Wave of COVID-19

Use of Procalcitonin During the First Wave of COVID-19

A minority of patients presenting to hospital with COVID-19 have bacterial co-infection. Procalcitonin testing may help identify patients for whom antibiotics should be prescribed or withheld. This study describes the... read more

Practice Recommendations on Neuraxial Anesthesia and Peripheral Nerve Blocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Practice Recommendations on Neuraxial Anesthesia and Peripheral Nerve Blocks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

General anesthesia (GA) with airway intervention leads to aerosol generation, which exposes the health care team to risk of transmission of COVID-19 both during intubation and extubation. The odds of transmission of acute... read more

A Systematic Review of Indoor Air Sampling for COVID-19 Detection

A Systematic Review of Indoor Air Sampling for COVID-19 Detection

In a post-pandemic scenario, indoor air monitoring may be required seeking to safeguard public health, and therefore well-defined methods, protocols, and equipment play an important role. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic,... read more

Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor’s Story of Courage and Compassion on the COVID-19 Frontline

Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor’s Story of Courage and Compassion on the COVID-19 Frontline

The first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line. Duty of Care is the first book to tell the full story of... read more

The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Striking humanity in waves, the cycle of plagues set the tempo of civilizational growth and decline, since... read more

The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – And Why They Stop

The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – And Why They Stop

From ideas and infections to financial crises and fake news, an "utterly timely" look at why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern life These days, whenever anything spreads, whether it's a YouTube fad or a... read more

Let’s stop the blame game over the ICU beds shortage for COVID-19 patients

Let’s stop the blame game over the ICU beds shortage for COVID-19 patients

The situation in UK intensive care units (ICUs) is grave. Across the UK, units are under immense pressure and are as busy or busier than they were in the first wave. All plans enacted over the summer to provide support for... read more

RAPID UPDATE: Clinical Guide for the Management of Critical Care for Adults with COVID-19

RAPID UPDATE: Clinical Guide for the Management of Critical Care for Adults with COVID-19

This RAPID UPDATE to the FICM/ICS "Clinical guide for the management of critical care for adults with COVID-19 during the Coronavirus pandemic" highlights five clinically urgent issues for practising clinicians caring for... read more

ECMO for COVID-19 patients in Europe and Israel

ECMO for COVID-19 patients in Europe and Israel

As of October 17th the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) caused a pandemic disease (coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19) 40 million people worldwide, with almost one million deaths. Although most patients have an uncomplicated... read more

FDA Warns Against Cutting the COVID-19 Vaccine Dosing in Half

FDA Warns Against Cutting the COVID-19 Vaccine Dosing in Half

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning health care workers that any changes to the authorized dosing schedules of COVID-19 vaccines currently being administered would significantly place public health at risk and... read more

Ten reasons why corticosteroid therapy reduces mortality in severe COVID-19

Ten reasons why corticosteroid therapy reduces mortality in severe COVID-19

Primary outcome in the RECOVERY trial and in the WHO REACT meta-analysis was 28-day mortality. Assessing 28-day mortality may not be the optimal outcome in a trial. Since patients with severe COVID-19 often require prolonged... read more

COVID-19 – In The Eye Of The Storm

COVID-19 – In The Eye Of The Storm

We're back in the eye of the storm, said NHS Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens. Yes we are. He made no admission of how we got into this storm, nor explained how we’re going to get out of it. His Five Year Plan for the... read more

The COVID-19 Vaccine: An Expert’s Medical Guide for All

The COVID-19 Vaccine: An Expert’s Medical Guide for All

Vaccine expert Zeil Rosenberg, M.D. shares his medical knowledge, backed by scientific data, about the development, safety and effectiveness of the new COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Rosenberg M.D. is a Board-Certified Preventive... read more