Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Tocilizumab Injection (Actemra)
The FDA has approved tocilizumab injection to treat COVID-19 among hospitalized adult patients who are receiving systemic corticosteroids and require supplemental oxygen.
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Care Transitions Through ACHIEVE Study Score Points with Patients
Care transitions across organizations and the community require better collaboration and communication among providers and social service organizations, according to recent research. Patients benefited from improved collaboration. They reported feeling better supported and cared for by providers involved in a care transition project.
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Pulmonary Embolism
Emergency clinicians need to remain updated on the management and treatment of many critical diagnoses. Pulmonary emboli carry a significant morbidity and mortality, even with the advances in treatment that have been made over the past several decades. Having a high suspicion, making the diagnosis early, and initiating treatment are important for optimal patient outcomes.
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Leapfrog Group Finds ‘Significant’ Safety Improvement Over 10 Years
Hospitals in the United States have improved patient safety measures significantly over the past decade, according to the latest report from the Leapfrog Group.
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Pandemic-Delayed Lawsuits Are Coming to Court
The COVID-19 pandemic paused the usual flow of medical malpractice lawsuits, but it appears that is ending. Hospitals and clinicians are seeing more filings, which could put unusual pressure on risk managers, defense counsel, and insurers.
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Noninvasive Ventilation Can Be Used Safely for Patients with COVID-19
When appropriate precautions (adequate room ventilation, use of total face masks, dual-limb circuits, and filters) are used, environmental contamination of SARS-CoV-2 during noninvasive ventilation is low. Noninvasive ventilation does not appear to increase the risk of COVID-19 infection for healthcare workers or patients when precautions are applied.
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Healthcare Workers Weather Respiratory Onslaught
In a seemingly interminable viral winter, healthcare workers are facing a rare convergence of a pandemic virus and unusually high levels of seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus. Some are tired and sick; others sick of being tired. As EDs stretch capacity to the limits to treat respiratory patients, others with various conditions and critical needs are backed up.
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Physicians Can Suffer Moral Injury if Oath to Patients Is Broken
Long before the pandemic, physicians were suffering from “moral injury” — a violation of one’s values, ethical code, or sworn duty — because too often they had to choose between their patients and the profits and performance measures of corporate medicine, claims the author of a new book.
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OSHA COVID-19 Draft Rule in Healthcare Expected Soon
As this report was filed, OSHA had finalized the COVID-19 standard to protect healthcare workers and submitted it to the White House. On Dec. 8, 2022, OSHA sent the standard to the Office of Management and Budget, with a decision on its fate expected sometime in early 2023.
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OSHA Violence Prevention Draft Regulation Expected in 2023
With the COVID-19 standard moving through the final stages toward finalization, OSHA is expected to next issue a violence prevention draft standard for healthcare in 2023.