COVID-19
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Sep 16 2020
VTE Week | COVID-19 and PE Risk in Hospitalized Patients
Spoon Feed Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism. The risk is largest in those patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit.Read More -
Sep 11 2020
Will I Catch COVID-19 If Exposed?
Spoon Feed If a susceptible person is exposed to someone with COVID-19, there is, on average, about a 3-4% chance of they will become infected. Several factors make this more or less likely.Read More -
Aug 21 2020
COVID-19 – Ten Things I Wish We Had Known
Spoon Feed While we are learning more about COVID-19 each day, it would have been nice to know these clinical and logistical points of interest when it all started. There are many publications about COVID-19, but this paper sought to present 10 lessons learned that were relatively underrepresented in other publications.Read More -
Aug 20 2020
RECOVERY – Dexamethasone for COVID-19
Spoon Feed The use of dexamethasone was associated with lower mortality for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 receiving invasive mechanical ventilation or supplemental oxygen therapy. There was no benefit for patients who did not require initial respiratory support.Read More -
Aug 13 2020
Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19
Spoon Feed COVID-19 may cause a number of neurological manifestations. Here is what you need to know.Read More -
Aug 12 2020
Risk Factors for Death from COVID-19
Spoon Feed COVID-19 was more likely to be fatal in older, male, overweight patients with comorbidities. And patients with more severe lung, liver, or kidney involvement and those in hospitals with fewer ICU beds had greater mortality.Read More -
Jul 07 2020
PPE Really Works!
Spoon Feed No healthcare workers dispatched to Wuhan who worked with COVID-19 patients became ill during or after their 6-8 week tour of duty. All were provided adequate and appropriate PPE.Read More -
Jul 06 2020
Awake Proning for COVID-19
Spoon Feed To date, there is no evidence to support that placing awake patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure in the prone position impacts any clinically relevant outcomes.Read More -
Jun 30 2020
Silent Hypoxemia from COVID-19 Explained
Spoon Feed The severe, yet clinically silent, hypoxemia of COVID-19 seen in some patients may be explained by a few basic respiratory pathophysiological principles.Read More -
Jun 08 2020
What’s the False Negative Rate of SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR?
Spoon Feed Testing a patient for SARS-CoV-2 on day 3 after symptom onset yielded the highest likelihood of detecting infection. Unfortunately, the false negative rate was 20%. Testing earlier or later had much higher false negative rates.Read More