Emergency Medicine - Adult and Pediatric
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Clinical Leaders Urge Patients to Seek Care for Critical, Time-Sensitive Conditions
While COVID-19 continues surging in many regions, emergency departments across the country are confronting another significant problem: plummeting patient volumes. Many people with time-sensitive conditions such as stroke and heart attack are delaying or avoiding care, a reality that is leading to tragic results.
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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, most of whom required invasive ventilation, 68% showed clinical improvement after treatment with remdesivir on a compassionate-use basis.
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COVID-19: Pandemic 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly spreading disease, and our knowledge is rapidly growing.
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Senators Call for Permanent Expansion of Telehealth
The service has become incredibly popular and useful during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Many Hospitals Lacked Ventilator Triage Policies When COVID-19 Pandemic Hit
More than half of institutions did not have ventilator triage policies in place when the pandemic arrived, according to the authors of a study.
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Some Hospitalized Patients Admitted to ICU, Contrary to Stated Wishes
Research has demonstrated that completed Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms can help people with chronic illness avoid unwanted hospitalizations and CPR. However, there is more to learn about what happens when patients with POLST forms are admitted to the hospital near the end of life.
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ED Administrators, Advocacy Orgs Search for Missing Patients
Recent steep declines in U.S. emergency department visits, attributed to fears about contracting COVID-19, alarm the healthcare industry.
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Industrial-Grade Mask Could Be Viable Alternative to N95 Respirators
The persistent shortage of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic has led some to search for viable workarounds.
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COVID-19 Lockdown Measures May Have Prevented 530 Million Additional Infections
Researchers studied actions taken in six countries and the resulting outcomes.