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Uncategorized Published - 14 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
COVID-19 Pandemic—Decontamination of Respirators and Masks for the General Public, Health Care Workers, and Hospital Environments

Authors: Qisheng Ou, PhD; Chenxing Pei; Seong Chan Kim, PhD; Kumar Belani, MD; Rumi Faizer, MD; John Bischof, PhD; David Y. H. Pui, PhD Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Volume 35 No 2 June 2020 There is a serious shortage of respirators and masks that are essential for the protection of frontline health care workers and […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Physical Fitness Significantly Influences Obese Women’s Cardiovascular Risk

Author: Kevin Kunzmann HCP Live Conference | European Society of Cardiology Congress New findings suggest the “obesity paradox” may be explained by rates of exercise among women. Physical fitness may play a significant role in the “obesity paradox”—the emerging clinical belief that obesity may have protective benefit versus morbidity and mortality among patients with cardiovascular disease, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Study finds late-onset infections, toxicities more common in mechanically-ventilated patients with COVID-19 receiving tocilizumab

Author: Denise Baez Use of tocilizumab for the management of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)‐related cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is not without risk, with late-onset infections and drug-related toxicities occurring in many patients, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Virology. Among 74 patients with COVID-19 who required mechanical ventilation and were treated […]

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Uncategorized Published - 14 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation After Surgery Not Necessarily Transient

By Joe Elia NEJM Journal Watch Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM New-onset atrial fibrillation after noncardiac surgery indicates a heightened risk for stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) in subsequent years, a JAMA study finds. Researchers did retrospective long-term follow-up (median, 5.4 years) on some 450 patients who had new-onset […]

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Uncategorized Published - 11 September, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Expert panel recommends coronary CTA as first choice when evaluating for stable CAD

This is important because we often see preop pts with CAD. Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) should be the first test clinicians use to evaluate stable coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a group of specialists assembled by the American College of Cardiology (ACC). The ACC Summit on Technology […]

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