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DG Alerts A Spanish study published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis reported a high rate of pulmonary embolism (PE) in non-critically ill hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) despite use of standard thromboprophylaxis. B. Mestre-Gómez, Internal Medicine Department, Infanta Leonor University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, and colleagues said “we found 29 patients with proven PE and COVID-19 pneumonia out […]
Read MoreBy Kelly Young Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH NEJM Journal Watch The FDA is now requiring the prescribing labels of opioid medications to include recommendations about naloxone. The requirements also apply to drugs used to treat opioid use disorder. When prescribing or renewing an opioid prescription, clinicians should discuss naloxone availability with […]
Read MoreBy Angie Drakulich, MA, PPM Executive Editor Practical Pain Management For decades, pain management has revolved around tissue damage and nociception, but the pain experience is so much more than that. With neuropathic, social, and cognitive factors also at play, “pain” now accounts for function and more. A Q&A. In July 2020, the International Association for […]
Read MoreAuthor: Ron Winslow STAT It was late April, near the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in the big cities in the northeastern U.S., and anesthesiologist Joseph Savino was puzzled. In two months, an unexpectedly high number of coronavirus patients had died in his intensive care unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after […]
Read MoreAuthor: Charlotte Jee MIT Technology News People who survive intensive care and the process of being put on a ventilator often suffer depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. There’s a phrase to describe what we’re experiencing: collective trauma. We are all grieving—whether it’s for the deaths of loved ones, the loss of our way of […]
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