Critically ill COVID-19 patients on a mechanical ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) lived more often when randomized to receive baricitinib. Doctors call this drug "bari," and receiving the pill once ...
Feb 8, 2022
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People who suffer severe head injuries are sometimes placed on mechanical ventilators to ensure oxygen delivery to the body's vital organs, including the brain. Initially, mechanical ventilation is provided through a tube ...
Jan 3, 2022
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In-hospital mortality in patients admitted to Spanish Intensive Care Units (ICU) during the pandemic was 31%, and factors associated with poorer prognoses are associated with the need for mechanical ventilation, age, initial ...
Dec 17, 2021
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Providing high-quality care to severely ill patients is a complex endeavor that requires trained personnel, a designated setting, monitoring equipment, and specialized management. Researchers from the School of Medicine at ...
Dec 16, 2021
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A study by researchers at Yale and Stanford universities reveals a significant increase in lawsuits over unpaid hospital bills in Wisconsin, providing further evidence of the financial hardship that the U.S. health care system ...
Dec 7, 2021
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A new opinion piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society provides an exhaustive examination of the ethics of using hospital resources on unvaccinated-by-choice COVID-19 pneumonia patients, versus ...
Dec 3, 2021
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The earliest wave of COVID-19 spared much of rural America, striking people who live in urban areas with far more frequency. The latest surge was different, however. Nonmetropolitan COVID cases outpaced metropolitan ones. ...
Nov 11, 2021
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A high dose of an inexpensive and globally available blood-thinning medication reduces the risk of death in hospitalized patients who are moderately ill with COVID-19, suggests a new study led by St. Michael's Hospital.
Oct 15, 2021
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George Mason University's Andrew Peterson says that rationing medical care depending on vaccination status is ethically fraught, but it's under consideration in parts of America as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to ...
Oct 8, 2021
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A Jordanian hospital has successfully performed the country's first operation to separate conjoined twins, seven-month-old babies from Yemen, the chief surgeon announced Sunday.
Oct 4, 2021
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