This study shows that overburdening of ICU professionals during an extended period of time leads to symptoms of burnout. Working long hours and under conditions of scarcity of staff, time, and resources comes at the price of ICU professionals’ mental health.
The lack of PPE left healthcare professionals with a complicated ethical dilemma: Is there an ethical duty to care for patients in the absence of proper PPE?
Within our institution, many critically ill COVID-19-positive patients suffered major thrombotic events, prompting our clinicians to evaluate hypercoagulability outside of traditional coagulation testing.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in numerous changes and novel sources of adversity for the orthopaedic surgery resident. Contrary to popular opinion, most residents are comfortable with the proposition of providing nonorthopaedic care.
After initially hypothesizing a positive relationship between use of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors and risk of COVID-19, more recent evidence suggests negative associations.
Several online sources provide up-to-date open-access data on numbers, rates and proportions of COVID-19 deaths. Our article aims at comparing and interpreting between-country trends of mortality rate, case-fatality and all-cause excess mortality.
Experts review the evidence that spironolactone may be the preferred RASSi to increase PN1 and decrease TMPRSS2, furin, and plasmin activities and thereby reduce viral cell binding, entry, infectivity, and bad outcomes.
Patients with cancer are poorly represented in COVID-19 series, and heterogeneous series concerning hematology patients have been published. This study aimed to analyze the impact of COVID-19 in patients with lymphoma.
