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Mental health consequences of the pandemic for medical personnel

Physicians, nursing staff, medical technical assistants, and pastoral workers in hospitals: they have all been placed under severe strain by the Covid-19 pandemic.

28 Jul 2021

SARS-CoV-2 spike-specific antibodies induced in breast milk by COVID-19 vaccines

An interesting new paper examines how these vaccines can help young patient populations to withstand the virus.

27 Jul 2021

Off-season resurgence of respiratory viruses poses a threat to vulnerable infants

Canada should anticipate a resurgence of a childhood respiratory virus as COVID-19 physical distancing measures are relaxed, authors warn in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

27 Jul 2021

Bye-bye to health insurance ‘birthday rule’? Kansas lawmaker floats fix

When Kayla Kjelshus gave birth to her first child, the infant spent seven days in the neonatal intensive care unit, known as the NICU.

27 Jul 2021

As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry

Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction.

26 Jul 2021

Better healthcare processes can reduce the risk of delirium among elderly patients

Elderly patients with neurological conditions are significantly more likely to develop delirium shortly after they are hospitalized.

23 Jul 2021

New machine learning-based model predicts mortality risk of intensive care unit patients

A research team led by Dr Rosario Delgado from the UAB Department of Mathematics, in collaboration with the Hospital de Mataró, developed a new machine learning-based model that predicts the risk of mortality of intensive care unit patients according to their characteristics.

23 Jul 2021

Clinical trials during a pandemic – lessons from COVID-19

In this interview, Dr. Benedicte Roquebert, Dr. Stephanie Haim-Boukobza and Dr. Souad Mehlal discuss how COVID-19 has resulted in new ways to think about clinical trials during a pandemic.

From Cerba Research 23 Jul 2021

Freiburg surgeons develop new treatment method to improve survival after cardiac arrest

Around 50,000 people suffer sudden cardiac arrest in Germany every year. When occurring outside a hospital, the chances of survival are only ten percent. Survivors often suffer from severe permanent neurological damage.

23 Jul 2021

Can platelet size predict severity and mortality in COVID-19?

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has baffled researchers with its propensity to cause symptoms of largely unpredictable severity in the affected individuals. An exciting new study reports on the potential predictive value of platelet size in this situation. COVID-19 patients with severe disease often develop clots in vital organs, which leads to further complications. It is known that platelet size is a good indicator of activation.

22 Jul 2021

New blood test could help predict the severity of COVID-19 symptoms

During the height of the pandemic, some hospitals were overwhelmed with patients seeking treatment for COVID-19.

22 Jul 2021

Study evaluates ICU workers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

A high proportion of staff working in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic have experienced mental health conditions, according to a new study.

21 Jul 2021

Study shows strong relationship between women's heart health and pregnancy outcomes

A study of more than 18 million pregnancies has shown a strong and graded relationship between women's heart health and pregnancy outcomes.

21 Jul 2021

Thai study looks at CoronaVac vaccine vs. natural immunity to SARS-COV-2 variants

A new study evaluates the efficacy of vaccine- and infection-induced antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

19 Jul 2021

Study reveals the impact of high respiratory efforts on the lungs of COVID-19 patients

The impact of high breathing efforts on the lungs of patients suffering with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19 has been investigated by researchers at the University of Warwick, who assessed the likelihood of resulting lung injury.

19 Jul 2021

Sophisticated stem cell model reveals potential route of SARS-CoV-2 entry into the brain

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into the human brain.

16 Jul 2021

Psychiatric patients have higher odds of hospitalization and death following COVID-19

In the largest systematic review and meta-analysis to date on COVID-19 outcomes in individuals with psychiatric disorders, the odds of dying or being hospitalized following COVID-19 infection were determined to be twice as high in comparison to persons without mental disorders.

16 Jul 2021

UK study finds brain or nerve complications in 1 in 20 of children hospitalized with COVID-19

Although the risk of a child being admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 is small, a new UK study has found that around 1 in 20 of children hospitalized with COVID-19 develop brain or nerve complications linked to the viral infection.

16 Jul 2021

Researchers identify a new, promising biomarker for bacterial soft tissue infections

Rapid diagnosis is crucial in bacterial soft tissue infections to reduce the risk of severe injury or amputation.

15 Jul 2021

About 4 in 100 COVID-19 hospitalized children may develop neurological complications, a study finds

In a recently published article in The Lancet’s Child & Adolescent Health, scientists have described in detail neurological and psychiatric manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in children. As mentioned in the study, an estimated prevalence of infection-related neurological complications and pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome in hospitalized children and adolescents is about 3.8 cases per 100 patients.

15 Jul 2021

Intensive Care News and Research

Mental health consequences of the pandemic for medical personnel

SARS-CoV-2 spike-specific antibodies induced in breast milk by COVID-19 vaccines

Off-season resurgence of respiratory viruses poses a threat to vulnerable infants

Bye-bye to health insurance ‘birthday rule’? Kansas lawmaker floats fix

As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry

Better healthcare processes can reduce the risk of delirium among elderly patients

New machine learning-based model predicts mortality risk of intensive care unit patients

Clinical trials during a pandemic – lessons from COVID-19

Freiburg surgeons develop new treatment method to improve survival after cardiac arrest

Can platelet size predict severity and mortality in COVID-19?

New blood test could help predict the severity of COVID-19 symptoms

Study evaluates ICU workers' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Study shows strong relationship between women's heart health and pregnancy outcomes

Thai study looks at CoronaVac vaccine vs. natural immunity to SARS-COV-2 variants

Study reveals the impact of high respiratory efforts on the lungs of COVID-19 patients

Sophisticated stem cell model reveals potential route of SARS-CoV-2 entry into the brain

Psychiatric patients have higher odds of hospitalization and death following COVID-19

UK study finds brain or nerve complications in 1 in 20 of children hospitalized with COVID-19

Researchers identify a new, promising biomarker for bacterial soft tissue infections

About 4 in 100 COVID-19 hospitalized children may develop neurological complications, a study finds

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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