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By Denise Baez DG Alert In today’s DG Alert, we cover the incidence of myocardial injury in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the association between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) viral load and symptom severity and outcomes. According to a study published in Circulation, myocardial injury is common in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 and […]
Read MoreAuthor: Tsai, Phil B. MD, MPH Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 1 – p e44-e45 To the Editor The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has led to awareness of the heightened risk for the anesthesia provider. A recent joint position statement by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Anesthesia Patient Safety […]
Read MoreAuthors: Brown, Sarah MD; Verma, Shilpa MBBS; Lean, Alexa MD; Patrao, Fiona MBBS Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 1 – p e48-e50 To the Editor In the time of an airborne pandemic, institutions must adapt and launch innovative strategies to keep patients and staff safe. This is challenging given the […]
Read MoreDG Alerts Venous thromboembolic events in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients are well recognized, but findings published in the journal Radiology suggest a link between the infection and lower extremity arterial thrombosis, characterized by higher clot burden and a predilection for proximal vessels. The incidence of death and amputation was also significantly more common in COVID-19 patients […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News COVID-19 hit hospitals hard, leaving providers with an influx of new patients and uncertainty about how to move forward. A new commentary in Circulation: Heart Failure offers a first-hand account of how one facility faced the pandemic head-on, embracing telehealth to ensure patients with advanced heart failure (HF) received the high-quality […]
Read MoreDG Alerts A case series published in the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy highlights four patients needing mechanical ventilation for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, who were diagnosed with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), and underwent systemic fibrinolysis with full-dose alteplase, with three of them achieving rapid hemodynamic and respiratory success. Roberta Della Bona, MD, CardioThoracoVascular […]
Read MoreAuthors: Habib, Ahmed MD; Zinn, Pascal O. MD, PhD Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2020 – Volume 131 – Issue 1 – p e45-e47 To the Editor With great interest, we read the article recently published by Mascha et al.1 Mascha et al1 discuss the logistics challenge that health care workers and institutions around the world are currently […]
Read MoreThis has nothing to do with anesthesia but I wanted to share with our readers because it was interesting. Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business Journal When breast cancer patients survive a myocardial infarction (MI), their risk of dying from cancer jumps by a whopping 60%, according to new research published in Nature Medicine. The eye-opening study […]
Read MoreMichael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Ordering echocardiograms can play a key role in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, according to new research out of the U.K. The authors examined data from more than 1,200 patients from 69 different countries, sharing their findings in the European heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging. The team found that approximately […]
Read MoreBy Jessica Hamzelou NewScientist Donated lungs that are too damaged to be used in transplants have been revived after being connected to the blood supply of a live pig. The technique could potentially triple the number of lungs available for transplant, say the researchers behind the work. As soon as someone dies, their lungs begin to […]
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