COVID-19
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Apr 20 2022
It’s Crazy, Disgusting, and Unsafe to Reuse PPE
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Reusing personal protective equipment risks contamination for healthcare workers and should be eliminated as much as possible. See image of contamination below.Source
Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment: Results of a Human Factors Study Using Fluorescence to Identify Self-Contamination During Donning and Doffing. J Emerg Med. 2022 Mar;62(3):337-341. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2021.12.010. Epub 2022 Feb 4. -
Mar 30 2022
How to Fight COVID-19 at Home – Outpatient Treatment Options
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There are a variety of therapeutic agents available for use in outpatients with COVID-19. Each has advantages and disadvantages that can help you decide which medication is best for your patient.Source
COVID-19 Therapeutics for Nonhospitalized Patients. JAMA. 2022 Feb 15;327(7):617-618. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.0335. -
Feb 28 2022
MOVe-Out RCT | Molnupiravir for COVID-19 in Outpatients
Spoon Feed Molnupiravir is an oral antiviral drug that has been shown to decrease risk of hospitalization or death at 29 days in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 who are at risk for progression to severe diseaseRead More -
Feb 23 2022
Outpatient Remdesivir for COVID-19
Spoon Feed Outpatient IV remdesivir was effective in reducing COVID-related hospitalization in high risk outpatients.Read More -
Jan 27 2022
HEP-COVID RCT -Full Dose Anticoagulation for COVID-19?
Spoon Feed In adult COVID-19 patients with high thrombosis risk, empiric therapeutic dose enoxaparin reduced a composite outcome incidence of thrombotic events or 30-day all-cause mortality relative to prophylactic regimens with no significant difference in major bleeding. The difference was driven by a reduction in venous thromboembolism (VTE) and was not observed in ICU patients.Read More -
Jan 18 2022
High-Flow vs. Conventional Oxygen for Severe COVID-19
Spoon Feed Patients suffering from severe COVID-19 who are treated with high-flow oxygen nasal cannula, compared with those treated with conventional supplemental oxygen, have decreased need for mechanical ventilation and more rapid clinical recovery.Read More -
Dec 17 2021
COVID-19, Stress, and You
Spoon Feed Emergency physicians reported that the COVID-19 pandemic made them feel more stressed, lonely, anxious, irritable, and sad. Overall, EM providers had an uptick in alcohol use and a decrease in daily exercise. Laughter (humor and positive reframing) was the best medicine during this time.Read More -
Nov 04 2021
REGEN-COV for COVID-19
Spoon Feed Use of REGEN-COV, a combination of the monoclonal antibodies casirivimab and imdevimab, for patients with Covid-19 infection was associated with faster symptom resolution and reduced risk of hospitalization or death compared to placebo.Read More -
Oct 19 2021
Outpatient COVID Treatment – PRINCIPLE RCT Inhaled Steroids
Spoon Feed Inhaled budesonide improves time to recovery with a chance of also decreasing hospital admissions and/or deaths in high-risk patients with COVID-19 who are treated in the outpatient setting.Read More -
Oct 15 2021
Can We Trust D-dimer for VTE in COVID-19?
Spoon Feed Traditional laboratory cutoff values for D-dimer assays can still be employed in patients with COVID-19 to effectively rule out pulmonary embolism.Read More