The US National Blood Crisis: Supply at 10-year Low From Pandemic Disruptions
The blood supply in the U.S. is now at its lowest level in over a decade. Many of the nation’s ...
Tag: Emergency Medicine
CBRNE Mass Casualty: Rapid Bedside Ultrasound Triage System Awarded BARDA Investment
A portable, radiation-free alternative for fracture screening may help reduce the need for limited X-rays resources – the equipment, as ...
UC Davis Researchers Investigate Paths to Possible Mother-to-child Coronavirus Transmission
UC Davis Health researchers took a critical step in defining the possible paths for the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) ...
Blood Clotting a Significant Cause of Death in Patients with COVID-19
A study led by clinician scientists at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has found that Irish patients admitted ...
Vent Splitting Breakthrough Shows Promise During Global Ventilator Shortage
A world-first breakthrough by Australian researchers in ventilator splitting could help hospitals under severe stress as the number of critical ...
Canadian Team First in World to Treat COVID-19 With Specialized Dialysis
Extracorporeal treatment reprograms white blood cells to fight inflammation. As part of a randomized controlled trial, a team from Lawson ...
The Role of X-Ray, CT Scans in Diagnosis of Pediatric COVID-19
Distribution, lung zone preference, symmetry of abnormalities, and unique findings such as halo sign offer narrower differential diagnosis of COVID-19 ...
Timing of Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 May Contribute to Disease Severity
The interaction between the innate and the adaptive immune responses to COVID-19 may be impacting disease progression, according to a ...
COVID-19 Study Shows That Men Have Over Double the Death Rate of Women
Study of gender differences in COVID-19 finds that men have more severe disease and are over twice as likely to ...
Hospitals Need Dialysis Equipment as Thousands of Coronavirus Patients Develop Kidney Problems
New reporting indicates approximately 20 percent of COVID-19 patients in intensive care need the kidney treatment, often for weeks, prompting ...
WVU-Engineered Intubation Boxes to Help Reduce Risk to Clinicians During COVID-19 Pandemic
A global pandemic, a worried wife and a campus that, like its home state, is full of connections, were the ...
Hydroxychlorquine and Azythromycine Combination Treatment for COVID-19 Can Raise Risk for Dangerous Abnormal Heart Rhythms
Hydroxychlorquine and Azythromycine Combination Treatment for COVID-19 Can Raise Risk for Dangerous Abnormal Heart Rhythms Cardiologists from Oregon Health & ...
Duke Starts Innovative Decon of N95 Masks Using Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide to Alleviate Shortages
Facing a critical shortage of N95 face masks that block the coronavirus, Duke Health research and clinical teams have confirmed ...
COVID-19 Infection in Children
We must try and manage children in an evidence-based way, despite having very little evidence at our disposal. A national guideline for ...
The U.S. Government Efforts to Build Low-Cost Ventilators Hit Industry Resistance Over Past Decade
Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded ...
