Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Regional Collaboration May Improve the Ethical Response to Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is raising profound ethical questions, including whether different socioeconomic groups and rural facilities are receiving equitable care and resources as their better-positioned counterparts.
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Anticoagulation Therapy in Patients with Severe COVID-19
In a retrospective study involving 449 patients with severe COVID-19 requiring intensive care unit admission, those patients with a positive sepsis coagulation score or D-dimer greater than 3.0 mcg/mL who received prophylactic doses of low molecular weight heparin exhibited lower 28-day mortality.
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Clock Starts Ticking When COVID-19 Enters Nursing Home
Considering the high risk of spread after COVID-19 enters a nursing home, facilities must act immediately to protect residents, families, and staff from serious illness and death.
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Managing COVID-19 Respiratory Failure: Is There a Perfect Management Strategy?
COVID-19 is a systemic disease that primarily injures the vascular endothelium, causing a unique lung injury in which different management strategies may need to be considered to address the specific physiology of each patient.
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CMS Moves to Enforce Infection Control in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a new emphasis on infection control in nursing homes and has fast-tracked a regulation to enforce COVID-19 reporting.
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The ‘Heart-Wrenching’ Toll of COVID-19 on Nursing Homes
The combination of a highly infectious virus and a frail resident population in a closed environment — where infection control has been historically difficult to implement — has resulted in devastating outbreaks of COVID-19 in U.S. nursing homes.
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Special Commission to Address U.S. Nursing Home Safety, Quality
CMS establishes independent panel after a wave of COVID-19-related deaths were reported in these care facilities.
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Shipments of Remdesivir Begin Arriving at U.S. Hospitals
HHS requests facilities submit weekly data to facilitate distribution of the COVID-19 therapeutic.
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Restricting Access to Abortion Increases Complications
Restrictive abortion laws increase the chance that a woman will self-manage her abortion, a practice associated with an increased risk of complications.
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COVID-19 and Pregnancy: What Obstetricians Need to Know
While data remain limited on this particular coronavirus, extrapolation from other viruses (severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome), and best clinical observations and expert recommendations have led to current guidelines in care.