30 Days as a Medical Resident in New York City

30 Days as a Medical Resident in New York City

The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped everyone's lives. But for health-care workers, the impact of covid-19 is felt acutely, tragically, every day. To capture the lived reality of this, we asked Shaoli Chaudhuri, 29,... read more

COVID-19: Two More Trials Just Published on Remdesivir

COVID-19: Two More Trials Just Published on Remdesivir

Currently, there are no approved medications for the treatment of COVID-19, but, there are many investigational agents that have shown antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Unfortunately in vitro studies do... read more

Big Data to Help Predict Individual Trauma Patient Outcome

Big Data to Help Predict Individual Trauma Patient Outcome

Chinese researchers are using big data to help identify trauma patients who could experience potential adverse health events in the emergency department through the aid of a clinical decision support system. It was developed... read more

Pandemic Science Out of Control

Pandemic Science Out of Control

A toxic legacy of poor-quality research, media hype, lax regulatory oversight, and vicious partisanship has come home to roost in the search for effective treatments for COVID-19. The rush to offer unproven treatments... read more

Low-dose Dopamine in Patients with Early Renal Dysfunction

Low-dose Dopamine in Patients with Early Renal Dysfunction

Administration of low-dose dopamine by continuous intravenous infusion to critically ill patients at risk of renal failure does not confer clinically significant protection from renal dysfunction. The groups assigned dopamine... read more

Predicting NIV Failure in Hypoxemic Patients

Predicting NIV Failure in Hypoxemic Patients

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is applied worldwide to patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure. It is often applied as an attempt to avoid invasive mechanical ventilation. However, the application of NIV is often... read more

Characteristics of Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19 in California

Characteristics of Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19 in California

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in increased hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) use. In the United States, few reports have characterized patients treated outside of the ICU. Northern California was... read more

Kill as Few Patients as Possible

Kill as Few Patients as Possible

This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden - and strengthen - the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier... read more

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology

Crisis Management in Anesthesiology

The fully updated Crisis Management in Anesthesiology continues to provide updated insights on the latest theories, principles, and practices in anesthesiology. From anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists to emergency physicians... read more

First Case of COVID-19 Complicated With Fulminant Myocarditis

First Case of COVID-19 Complicated With Fulminant Myocarditis

COVID-19 patients may develop severe cardiac complications such as myocarditis and heart failure. This is the first report of COVID-19 complicated with fulminant myocarditis. The mechanism of cardiac pathology caused by COVID-19... read more

A Novel ECG-biomarker for Cardiac Arrest During Hypothermia

A Novel ECG-biomarker for Cardiac Arrest During Hypothermia

Treatment of arrhythmias evoked by accidental or therapeutic hypothermia and rewarming remains challenging. We aim to find an ECG-biomarker that can predict ventricular arrhythmias at temperatures occurring in therapeutic... read more

Comparison of Echocardiographic and Invasive Measures of Volaemia and Cardiac Performance in Critically Ill Patients

Comparison of Echocardiographic and Invasive Measures of Volaemia and Cardiac Performance in Critically Ill Patients

Static echocardiographic variables did not reliably reflect the volume state as defined by estimates of mean systemic filling pressure. There was no statistical or clinically robust relationship between static echocardiographic... read more

Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 in United States

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

Prediction Models for Diagnosis and Prognosis of COVID-19 Infection

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