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By Steven Reinberg HealthDay News A simple blood test may predict which COVID-19 patients are likely to get worse and die, a new study suggests. “When we first started treating COVID-19 patients, we watched them get better or get worse, but we didn’t know why,” said researcher Dr. Juan Reyes. He’s an assistant professor of medicine […]
Read MoreWritten by Maria Cohut, PhD Medical News Today A preliminary study suggests that more than 80% of people aged 20 and under may show no symptoms after contracting SARS-CoV-2. This may have important implications for virus transmission. Experts from the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy, in collaboration with colleagues affiliated to the ATS Lombardy COVID-19 […]
Read MoreBy Joe Elia NEJM Journal Review Smoking cigarettes — even one or less per day — is associated with increased mortality risk, a JAMA Network Open study shows. Researchers combined data from several federal smoking surveys performed between 1992 and 2011. In those surveys, some 500,000 adults reported their smoking histories. National mortality data showed that, compared […]
Read MoreBy Robert Preidt HealthDay News Eating disorders — such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge-eating disorder — cost the U.S. economy nearly $65 billion in one recent year, a new report shows. About 75% of that ($48.6 billion) was due to lost productivity, according to the researchers. “Our study lays bare the devastating economic impact that eating disorders […]
Read MoreAuthor: Marco, Alan P. MD, MMM Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 1 – p 120-123 As leaders in perioperative service management, anesthesiologists are familiar with requests from our proceduralist colleagues to come in early or stay late to get cases done. While this is clearly desirable from the proceduralist’s perspective, […]
Read MoreAuthors: Suen, Colin M. MD, PhD*,†; Hui, David S. C. MBBS‡; Memtsoudis, Stavros G. MD, PhD§; Chung, Frances MBBS*,† Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 2 – p 318-322 As health care providers tackle the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many questions have arisen regarding management of populations at increased risk […]
Read MoreBy Denise Baez DG Alerts Use of tocilizumab and anakinra to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related cytokine storm yield mixed results, with early identification and treatment of cytokine storm before intubation being more important than which anti-inflammatory agent is used, according to a study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. “Prompt identification and […]
Read MoreAuthor: Matt O’Connor Health Imaging News Unresponsive patients infected with COVID-19 have a better chance of regaining consciousness than previously assumed, according to new research published in the Annals of Neurology. Massachusetts General Hospital doctors performed standard brain imaging tests and resting-state functional MRI in a 47-year-old man who slipped between coma and minimal consciousness […]
Read MoreAuthor: Lisa Ryan ideastream A new study published in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine warns that health care providers may be experiencing increased burnout due to the coronavirus pandemic. Cleveland Clinic anesthesiologist and study co-author Dr. Praveen Chahar said provider burnout isn’t new, but dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic has caused even more stress. […]
Read MoreAuthors: Fusco, Pierfrancesco MD; Petroni, Gian Marco MD; Di Carlo, Stefano MD; Tullj, Stefania MD; Arcangeli, Valentina MD; Marinangeli, Franco PhD Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 2 – p e96-e97 To the Editor We read with great interest the open mind of Abd-Elsayed and Karri,1 which highlights the fact that health care […]
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