Articles Tagged With: COVID-19
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Chaplains ‘Uniquely Positioned’ to Help During COVID-19
Learn how chaplains can put their specialized training to use to help not only patients and families but staff, too.
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Ethicists Offer Much-Needed Support to Clinicians with Moral Distress
The issue of moral distress is nothing new in healthcare, but the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the problem. Read on to learn how ethicists can help colleagues sort through unusual feelings.
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Disciplinary Action, Terminations, Gag Orders: ‘Avalanche Effect’
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, hospitals suddenly had to determine how to ration scarce critical care resources. Hospitals could not change the fact they were caught without enough personal protective equipment (PPE) and could not immediately obtain more of it. However, they could control whether they responded ethically. Some hospitals imposed gag orders on staff, barring them from voicing concerns about PPE publicly. Nurses and physicians have been disciplined or threatened with termination for reporting inadequate PPE on social media.
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Clinical Ethicists ‘Doubling Down’ on Efforts as Hospitals Adjust to New Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic made ethics committees players of central importance. Experts highlight areas around which ethicists can shape the conversation.
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Fauci Taps the Brakes on Widespread Reopening
Warning of the risk of opening up the economy too quickly, infectious disease expert said the United States could see a painful resurgence of COVID-19.
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One COVID-19 Patient, More than 40 Healthcare Workers Exposed
An unsuspected case of COVID-19 — hospitalized as the pandemic was beginning in the United States — exposed 43 healthcare workers and caused what are thought to be the first occupational infections with the virus.
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Early Data on Remdesivir for Severe COVID-19: A Promising Start?
In this group of patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, the majority of whom required invasive ventilation, 68% showed clinical improvement after treatment with remdesivir on a compassionate-use basis.
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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.