In Madrid's deserted streets with paying customers scarce, taxi drivers running doctors from house-to-house or taking the sick to hospital have become an essential service, their free rides helping frontline medics fight ...
May 2, 2020
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A new study of medical staff treating COVID-19-infected patients found 42.8% experienced serious skin injury related to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, goggles, face shields, and protective ...
Apr 30, 2020
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The current NHS regulations for charging those not ordinarily resident in the UK for treatment, such as migrants and short term visitors, are 'unworkable' and harmful to the wider health system, concludes an analysis of survey ...
Apr 21, 2020
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In addition to LSU's announcement of large-scale production of personal protective gowns in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, or PMAC, another group of LSU innovators worked together to develop a solution to a critical challenge ...
Apr 20, 2020
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The Cochrane Review, "Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff," has been updated as a rapid review in response to the COVID-19 ...
Apr 15, 2020
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Researchers from the Multidisciplinary Institute of Medium Study Institute Ramón Margalef (IMEM) from Alicante University (UA), in collaboration with epidemiologists from the National Centre for Tropical Medicine of the ...
Apr 9, 2020
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A disposable plastic 'pop-up tent' which creates a protective barrier between patients and healthcare professionals could be the latest line of defense for frontline NHS workers thanks to a new product developed by a team ...
Apr 8, 2020
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A Loughborough University academic is providing guidance to clinicians who are likely to be having—and training people who will have—difficult conversations with patients suffering from COVID-19 or those closest to them.
Apr 7, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented need to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for hospital staff. A team of Montreal medical experts has partnered with a 3-D printing company to design and distribute ...
Apr 3, 2020
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In order to help people with fear of childbirth, there must be trust between the patient and the healthcare staff. But for many lesbian and bisexual women and transgender people, this trust never develops. These are the results ...
Dec 16, 2019
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