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Author: Fabienne Lang Interesting engineering When supply chains fall short during a pandemic, lives are at stake. Additive manufacturing is struggling to keep up as the coronavirus numbers keep increasing. However, luckily for some coronavirus patients in Italy, 3D printing came to their rescue. A Northern Italian hospital in Brescia, one of the worst hit areas […]
Read MoreBy Amy Orciari Herman Cardiac injury is a common complication among those hospitalized with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and it’s associated with significantly increased mortality risk, according to a retrospective study in JAMA Cardiology. Researchers studied over 400 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. Some 20% had cardiac injury, defined as elevated cardiac biomarkers (e.g., […]
Read MoreBy Adam Schlifke, MD, with contributions from others around the world Anesthesiology News Problem: There may be insufficient critical care beds and ventilators in the United States health care system to account for a potential tsunami of critically ill patients that will require intense, ICU-level support for many days in our hospital in the next coming […]
Read MoreAuthor: Naveed Saleh MD MS Anesthesiology News Monitored anesthesia care (MAC) might be preferred over general anesthesia (GA) in surgical patients with pulmonary hypertension, a study has concluded. Patients with pulmonary hypertension have high perioperative mortality and morbidity rates, but few studies have compared MAC with GA. Consequently, it is unclear whether the type of […]
Read MoreAuthor: Naveed Saleh MD MS Anesthesiology News In two studies presented at Euroanaesthesia 2019, researchers showed that flow-controlled ventilation (FCV) improved gas exchange, and that the linearized expiratory airflow during FCV may be particularly lung-protective in obese patients. FCV is a novel type of ventilation, which delivers a constant positive flow during inspiration and maintains […]
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