AJR review of COVID-19 studies cautions against chest CT for coronavirus diagnosis
Regarding sensitivity, specificity, and clinical practice, CT should be reserved for evaluation of complications of COVID-19 pneumonia or for assessment ...
Tag: Critical Care/Emergency Medicine
Novel tool reveals which states could face shortages of COVID-19 workforce
Seventeen states at risk of not having enough respiratory therapists, new modeling tool predictsCredit: GW Milken Institute School of Public ...
The Cath Lab during COVID
Paper Published by Le Bonheur Children's Physician in the Journal of Invasive CardiologyCredit: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Interventional cardiologists should ...
COVID-19: Exercise may protect against deadly complication
May prevent or reduce severity of acute respiratory distress syndromeCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Regular exercise may reduce the ...
ECMO physicians offer guidance in the context of resource-scarce COVID-19 treatment
Credit: ATS April 15, 2020 - Rapidly escalating numbers of COVID-19 patients suffering from respiratory failure threaten to overwhelm hospital ...
Engineering and health team up to design and produce face shields
Developed and launched production of shields for professionals responding to the COVID-19 pandemicCredit: The Grainger College of Engineering A team ...
Intermountain Healthcare COVID-19 response teams to provide support to New York hospitals
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Hundreds of Intermountain Healthcare clinicians recently expressed interest in providing assistance to states facing major surges in ...
Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare & U of U Health launch vital COVID-19 clinical trials
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Researchers from Intermountain Healthcare and University of Utah Health in Salt Lake City have launched two vital ...
Therapy dogs may help lower emergency clinicians’ stress
Credit: Dr. Kline New research published in Academic Emergency Medicine indicates that for physicians and nurses working evening shifts in ...
ATS publishes new guidance on COVID-19 management
Credit: ATS April 06, 2020─ An American Thoracic Society-led international task force has released a guidance document to help clinicians ...
Simple, low-cost ventilator builds on available resuscitation bags
Credit: Steven Norris, Georgia Tech A simple, low-cost ventilator based on the resuscitation bags carried in ambulances - and widely ...
Houston Methodist ramps up plasma therapy as FDA approves clinical trial
Credit: Houston Methodist The FDA's announcement Friday to approve convalescent serum therapy as a large-scale clinical trial opened the door ...
Suffering from skin damage from face masks?
Award-winning skin infection expert offers remedies to healCredit: Andrea Piacquadio via Pexels.com DOCTORS and nurses on the COVID-19 frontline are ...
UMass Amherst engineers, nurses design low-cost face shield PPE for health care
Protective plastic face shields can be mass-produced quickly by existing manufacturersCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In just under two ...
New study identifies characteristics of patients with fatal COVID-19
Credit: ATS April 03, 2020-- In a new study, researchers identified the most common characteristics of 85 COVID-19 patients who ...
Rice University emergency ventilator plans now online
ApolloBVM, an open-source bag valve mask automation device, could help patients in treatment for COVID-19Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - ...
Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues
'There is hope for this horrible pandemic,' says UBC scientist Dr. Josef PenningerCredit: IMBA/Tibor Kulcsar An international team led by ...
Checklist for emergency department team’s COVID-19 surge
Translating disaster medicine theory into practiceCredit: European Centers for Disease Control The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to many health ...
Advanced liver disease patients and transplant recipients need specific care during COVID-19
EASL and ESCMID have issued a Position Paper, providing recommendations for clinicians caring for patients with liver diseases during the ...
New guidelines on caring for ICU patients with COVID-19
International panel does quick turnaroundCredit: Photo courtesy McMaster University Hamilton, ON (April 1, 2020) - An international team including McMaster ...
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