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IMAGE: Berlin currently has three STEMOs, mobile stroke units which help reduce time to treatment. view more
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STEMOs (Stroke-Einsatz-Mobile) have been serving Berlin for ten years. The specialized stroke emergency response vehicles allow physicians to start treating stroke patients before they reach hospital. For the first time, a team of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has been able to show that the dispatch of mobile stroke units is linked to improved clinical outcomes. The researchers findings, which show that patients for whom STEMOs were dispatched were more likely to survive without long-term disability, have been published in
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Feb. 10, 2021 - A new paper published online in the
Annals of the American Thoracic Society describes a virtual recovery program for sepsis patients that may also help post-COVID-19 patients and survivors of other serious illnesses.
In Translating Post-Sepsis Care to Post-COVID Care: The Case for a Virtual Recovery Program, Stephanie Parks Taylor, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Atrium Health, Charlotte, North Carolina, and co-authors describe a model of virtual care they developed and successfully implemented for patients who have left the hospital after being treated for sepsis. They also address ways that this model of care may help severe COVID-19 patients who have survived their illness but need continuing care.
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New Rochelle, NY, February 9, 2021 The rapid upscaling of a telemonitoring program in which health care providers performed daily telemedicine check-ins on COVID-19 patients faced a unique set of challenges. How these were resolved, and early outcomes are reported in the peer-reviewed journal
Telemedicine and e-Health, Click here to read the article now. Kaiser Permanente s Virtual Home Care Program (VHCP) was able to rapidly establish a telemedicine-based program for the management of COVID-19 positive patients in the DC and Baltimore Metro regions. Preliminary data suggest that such a program may be effective in keeping patients out of the hospital and/or emergency room, stated James Shaw, MD, Med-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, and coauthors.
Intensive care nurses highlight patient isolation, fear of the unknown and using nurses who do not usually work in the ICU as key factors in caring for critical COVID-19 patients
This observational study describes differences in the number of COVID-19 deaths by nursing home racial composition and examines the factors associated with these differences.