Daily Archives: November 13, 2020
Covid-19: Inhaled Nebulized Interferon Beta-1a shows potential for hospitalized patients in preliminary trial
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:33h | UTC
Preliminary study shows fluvoxamine may reduce clinical deterioration in outpatients with symptomatic COVID-19
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:35h | UTCEditorial: COVID-19 Infection—Preventing Clinical Deterioration
Long Covid: Persistent fatigue following SARS-CoV-2 infection is common and independent of severity of initial infection
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:27h | UTCCommentary: Half of recovered COVID-19 patients report lingering fatigue – CIDRAP
Long Covid: 2 months after being hospitalized for Covid-19, many patients persisted symptomatic and did not resume normal activities
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:28h | UTCSixty-Day Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 – Annals of Internal Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
New Mich. hospital data: Of people admitted with COVID, 70% were alive and home 60 days later.
Of those who'd been working, 40% either lost their job or were still too sick to work.
It's not just the deaths; it's the health and economic damage. https://t.co/wMGkJw5KSF pic.twitter.com/8EbHktTxRX
— Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) November 12, 2020
Case report: Persistence and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an immunocompromised host
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:24h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
This summer, we partnered with the clinical team of an immunosuppressed patient with recurrent COVID and multiple hospitalizations. His NP swab VL reached 1 billion copies 5 months after initial dx. The team's Q: is this pt being re-infected w/ COVID? 1/ https://t.co/vkVerBUUPg
— Jonathan Li (@DrJLi) November 12, 2020
How risky is air travel in the pandemic? Here’s what the science says
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:22h | UTCHow risky is air travel in the pandemic? Here’s what the science says – Vox
Tranexamic acid after traumatic brain injury: Exploratory analysis combining data from CRASH-2 and CRASH-3 trials suggests reduced mortality
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:21h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
?? IPD meta-analysis of #CRASH2 and #CRASH3 trials show rapid #TXA (<3 hrs) reduces early deaths by >20% in both studies
Highly consistent results that #TXA reduces trauma deaths regardless of the location of the #bleeding ?
READ @Crit_Care ?https://t.co/s3vkm6c6Tf pic.twitter.com/og9jYi5tqo
— Clinical Trials Unit (@CTU_LSHTM) November 11, 2020
Perspective: Many younger adults need to take Covid-19 more seriously as demographics shift
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:25h | UTCYounger Adults Caught in COVID-19 Crosshairs as Demographics Shift – JAMA
Commentary from the author on Twitter (thread – click for more)
?For healthy young and middle-aged adults, focusing on the lower hospitalization, death risk misses the point. Even "mild" #COVID19 can be life-altering. My latest for @JAMA_current https://t.co/vV29SlYz5u 1/
— jenabbasi (@jenabbasi) November 12, 2020
Mechanical ventilation in patients with acute brain injury: recommendations of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine consensus
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:19h | UTC
[Abstract Only] Study: An automated predictive model can identify hospitalized adults outside the ICU at risk for clinical deterioration for whom interventions by rapid-response teams could be implemented
13 Nov, 2020 | 09:16h | UTCAutomated Identification of Adults at Risk for In-Hospital Clinical Deterioration – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)