PubMed COVID-19 Clinical Care
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Are all ventilators for NIV performing the same? A bench analysis
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Global pandemic due to COVID-19 has increased the interest for ventilators´ use worldwide. New devices have been developed and older ones have undergone a renewed interest, but we lack robust evidence about performance of each ventilator to match
The correlation between electrocardiographic parameters and mortality in non-cardiac ICU patients
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CONCLUSIONS: A novel admission ECG score (AD-ECG) based on ECG parameters (the QTc and Tpe intervals, and the Tpe/QT and Tpe/QTc ratios) and pulse pressure has similar sensitivity and specificity as the APACHE II score for predicting non-cardiac ICU
First results of the growth disorders related twinning programme Partners4Growth implemented at the tertiary university pediatric endocrinology clinics in Bulgaria
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CONCLUSIONS: Partners4Growth facilitated the alignment of the tertiary pediatric endocrinology centres competences thus leading to an improved diagnosis and treatment of growth disorders as well as better patients' access. For its short existence
Emergency Regulatory Procedures, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Politics, and the Political Economy of Vaccine Regulation in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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CONCLUSIONS: Emergency regulatory procedures affect key features of regulatory political economy and public health practices during crises. To improve future public health crisis responses, the authors provide sets of policy recommendations for 1)
Analysis of Nursing Staff Management for a Semi-intensive Pulmonology Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using the Nursing Activities Score
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CONCLUSION: A ratio of 2 nurses to 3 patients is necessary for SIPU care of patients with COVID-19. Factors associated with higher workload were high Simplified Acute Physiology Score II score, body mass index > 30, admission via emergency room
Association of Parsonage-Turner syndrome with COVID-19 infection and vaccination: a systematic review
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CONCLUSION: Post-vaccination Parsonage-Turner syndrome presents earlier than post-infection disease. Pain and sensorimotor deficits of the upper limb are common in both situations. Complete or partial recovery occurs in most cases.
Providing High-Quality Care During a Pandemic: Nursing Home Administrator Perspectives
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Nursing home administrators are responsible for promoting quality improvement (QI), a challenging task during a pandemic. In the current study, a convenience sample of 28 administrators of non-profit nursing homes was recruited for interviews
Changes in pediatric injuries sustained while engaged in activities where helmet usage is recommended during the COVID-19 pandemic
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CONCLUSION: This study found an increase in patients presenting with injuries sustained while engaged in AWHUR in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerningly, there was a trend toward decreased helmet utilization and increased injury severity
Successful implementation of telehealth visits in the paediatric heart failure and heart transplant population
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The Advanced Cardiac Therapies Improving Outcomes Network (ACTION) and Pediatric Heart Transplant Society (PHTS) convened a working group at the beginning of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim of using telehealth as an alternative medium
