Mechanical Ventilation Perspective

• COVID-19 in Pregnancy: Finally, Some Hard Data   COVID-19 has shown significant effects in pregnancy, and those risks must be taken into account when considering whether to advise vaccination for pregnant women, says Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, January 20, 2021
• New Guidance on Identifying Brain Death   Dr Andrew Wilner interviews Dr Gene Sung, lead author of the new guidelines from the World Brain Death Project.
  Medscape Neurology, January 06, 2021
• The Invisible Impact of COVID Delays on Cancer Treatment   Dr David Kerr discusses recent findings from a meta-analysis investigating the effects of cancer treatment delays during the pandemic on mortality.
  Medscape Oncology, December 07, 2020
• COPD Highlights From CHEST 2020   COPD highlights from CHEST 2020, reported by Dr Darcy Marciniuk, include analysis of the effect of ICS-containing therapies on lung function decline and cardiovascular risk after acute exacerbation.
  Medscape, November 20, 2020
• The COVID Complication You Might Miss An emerging complication of both severe influenza and COVID-19 may not be known to many healthcare providers. It can lead to deadly results.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 19, 2020
• How to Swab a Patient for COVID After a Tracheostomy Drs Robert Glatter and Nina Shapiro discuss tips for safe and effective COVID-19 sampling in patients with tracheostomy tubes or in laryngectomy patients.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, November 11, 2020
• What We Have Learned About SARS-CoV-2 Transmission We've learned a lot about transmission. What is the current state of the evidence?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 06, 2020
• Anticoagulation for COVID-19: More Harm than Good? The risk for fatal hemorrhagic stroke adds questions to the routine use of prophylactic anticoagulation in patients with COVID-19, according to Dr Andrew Wilner.
  Medscape Neurology, October 01, 2020
• The COVID ICU: Before You Sedate, Communicate COVID-19 has packed the country's ICUs with mechanically ventilated patients who are at risk for delirium and unable to speak. What can be done to help them communicate?
  Medscape Critical Care, September 30, 2020
• When Uncertainty Calls: An ER Doc's COVID Journey What do you do in times of uncertainty, when instinct goes against what you know? One emergency physician shares her story.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, September 15, 2020
• 'You'll Always Be Right Upstairs' An EMT cherishes the fact that her sister is just a few feet away, on the COVID floor of the hospital.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, August 31, 2020
• The Dangers of an Unwitnessed Pandemic This, Dr. Weiss wrote in his day four entry, is the reality of the disease: 'You really can't understand till you see it…and that's the problem. Nobody is seeing it.'
  Undark, July 31, 2020
• Drug Treatment for COVID-19: A Quick Summary for PCPs Worldwide, scientists have launched over 1000 clinical trials of drugs for the treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV-2 since the start of January. Here's our very quick summary.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 15, 2020
• Should Steroids Be Used to Treat ARDS? Are steroids safe or even helpful for patients with ARDS? It's complicated.
  Medscape Critical Care, July 01, 2020
• Thrombosis in COVID-19: What We Know and How to Treat   Hematologist Mary Cushman discusses arterial and venous thrombosis issues with SARS-CoV-2 and the role of anticoagulation.
  theheart.org on Medscape, June 18, 2020
• Open Lung Approach or ARDSNet PEEP? We still haven't seen a definitive comparison of the open lung approach vs ARDSNet protocols, Aaron Holley argues.
  Medscape Critical Care, June 09, 2020
• Viral Shedding and COVID-19 Superspreading Events Transmission of SARS-CoV2 is heterogenous, and superspreading events account for most local outbreaks. Eric Meyerowitz and Aaron Richterman review the evidence and the implications for curtailing the pandemic's spread.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, June 08, 2020
• Bellevue Starts to Reopen After COVID Peak   After a month that felt like years, Bellevue hospital staff are starting to reform their daily routines in a changed world. Dr Danielle Ofri shares her insights.
  Medscape, May 27, 2020
• A Quick Summary of the COVID-19 Literature Who can keep up with the explosion of papers on SARS-CoV-2? Two Boston-based HIV Fellows have done four biweekly deep dives into the COVID-19 literature. Read their highlights to date.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, May 18, 2020
• Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic From supply chain disruptions and PPE and ventilator shortages to exhausted caregivers — both physically and mentally — this pandemic has pushed the envelope on finding answers.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, May 16, 2020