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Hospitals and Case Managers Improve Care Transitions for COVID-19 Patients
After 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are learning how to efficiently and safely transition these patients to community settings. For example, one study showed an ED and hospital patient throughput management program can save hundreds of hospital patient days after discharge from the ED or observation unit stays. -
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Vaccines Are Available, but the Search for COVID-19 Therapeutics Continues
Right after the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for one drug, feds pressed pause on distributing another. -
Analysis: Residents Vulnerable to Physical, Verbal Assault
In one emergency department, more than three-quarters of all healthcare workers said they experienced a violent assault in the prior 12 months. -
Researchers Observe No Connections Between Statin Therapy, Cognitive Decline
But randomized trials are needed to better detail long-term risk-benefit ratio. -
Dietary Modifications with Linoleic Acid Can Have an Effect on Gut and Brain Inflammation
This study evaluated the use of dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) supplementation to modulate the disease outcome in a spontaneous mouse model of central nervous system autoimmunity and also studied patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis receiving CLA supplementation. CLA may act as a modulator of the gut-brain axis by targeting immune cells in the gut, with a subsequent effect in the brain.
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Neuromuscular Complications of Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Graft-versus-host disease is common in allogeneic bone marrow recipients, but neuromuscular complications are unusual (8%). The most common neuromuscular complication is an immune-mediated myositis that responds to treatment with immunosuppressive therapies.
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CSF Biomarkers May Distinguish MSA from Lewy-Body Alpha-Synucleinopathies Before the Onset of Debilitating Symptoms
In patients with autonomic failure, the combination of elevated neurofilament light and alpha-synuclein oligomers in the cerebrospinal fluid can distinguish between multiple system atrophy and Parkinson’s disease/dementia with Lewy bodies. Early diagnosis is critical for the development of treatment trials.
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AAP Recommends Screening All Children for Heart Problems
Around 2,000 Americans younger than age 25 die each year because of sudden cardiac death. -
Recovery of Consciousness After TBI: Who Recovers and When?
The majority of patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury who survive and are treated in acute rehabilitation centers will recover consciousness.