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Uncategorized Published - 24 August, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
COVID-19 Pandemic Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survivors: Pain After the Storm?

Authors: L Vittori, Alessandro MD*; Lerman, Jerrold MD, FRCPC, FANZCA†; Cascella, Marco MD‡; Gomez-Morad, Andrea D. MD§; Marchetti, Giuliano MD*; Marinangeli, Franco MD, PhD‖; Picardo, Sergio G. MD* Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 1 – p 117-119 At the end of 2019, the Health Committee of Wuhan alerted the World Health […]

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Uncategorized Published - 24 August, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Cerebral microbleeds, leukoencephalopathy tied to worse outcomes in critically ill COVID-19 patients

DG Alerts The presence of leukoencephalopathy and/or cerebral microbleeds is associated with critical illness, increased mortality, and worse functional outcome in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Shashank Agarwal, Department of Neurology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, and colleagues said that their findings, published in the journal Stroke, could shed light on the pathophysiology of […]

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Uncategorized Published - 21 August, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Adaptation to the Plastic Barrier Sheet to Facilitate Intubation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors: Yang, Yao-Lin MD; Huang, Ching-Hsuan MD; Luk, Hsiang-Ning MD, PhD; Tsai, Phil B. MD, MPH Anesthesia & Analgesia: August 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 2 – p e97-e99 To the Editor We read with interest the recent article by Brown et al,1 titled “Barrier System for Airway Management of COVID-19 Patients,” which described the […]

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Uncategorized Published - 21 August, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Convalescent plasma could reduce death from COVID-19, early data suggests

Author: Nicoletta Lanese LifeScience “All studies come with limits, and basically what we’re trying to do is provide a very high-level overview” of the data currently available, said author Dr. Michael Joyner, an anesthesiologist and physician-researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “The report provides a signal of hope that CP is beneficial, although […]

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Uncategorized Published - 21 August, 2020    By - Dr Clemens
Hypertension associated with greater risk of dying from COVID-19—but RAAS inhibitors can help

Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Hypertension is associated with a much greater risk of dying from COVID-19, according to new research published in European Heart Journal. The study’s authors noted that outcomes improved when patients took antihypertensive medications as recommended. The study included data from more than 2,800 patients who were treated for COVID-19 at facility […]

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