Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Tools Keep Tabs on Patients Remotely, Predicting Outcomes and Conserving Resources
Researchers developed an automated text messaging approach that can monitor patients who have been discharged from the ED. Other investigators have leveraged artificial intelligence to train an algorithm to help emergency clinicians better predict outcomes and manage resources.
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Post-Acute Care Transitions Were Problematic in Pandemic-Ravaged Areas
The continuum of care hit roadblocks in some U.S. cities as the COVID-19 pandemic made post-acute care transitions extremely challenging. In New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in March and April 2020, case managers needed to transition patients from acute care beds quickly, but had to adjust to surge obstacles to their usual post-acute options, according to the results of a recent study.
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Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Related to COVID-19?
The ECG in the figure was obtained from a man in his 30s. How would one interpret this tracing if told the patient’s only symptom was recent shortness of breath on exertion that he had not experienced?
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CMS Extends Hospital Survey Limitations
Agency restricts hospital complaint surveys to immediate jeopardy allegations.
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Experts Explain How Surgery Centers Can Improve Reprocessing Procedures
Two experts discuss reprocessing surgery center equipment, including where there is room for improvement and how the COVID-19 pandemic altered procedures.
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CMS Report Confirms Need for CRNAs
Tens of thousands of nurse anesthetists helped care for critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, making certified registered nurse anesthetists among the top specialties that served Medicare patients in non-telehealth during the first few months of the pandemic.
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Pandemic-Era Infection Prevention Practices Should Continue
Even if the COVID-19 pandemic ends soon, surgery centers likely will need to maintain the same level of infection prevention vigilance they have practiced for more than a year.
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COVID-19 Affected U.S. Life Expectancy: How Bad Is It?
The pandemic dinged the average, but the latest data do not tell the whole story.
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One Dose, Lower Temps May Suffice for Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
Encouraging new data emerge regarding storage, administration requirements.
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U.K. Approves First COVID-19 Human Challenge Trial
Volunteers will be infected with virus so researchers can learn more about pathology, speed effective vaccine development.