Search results for "COVID-19"
Postcard reminders may improve remote cardiac monitoring
A stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial found an almost 25% difference in adherence to remote monitoring in U.S. veterans with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators who received a reminder postcard versus those who did not.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2024/01/30/1.htm
30 Jan 2024
New COVID-19-related guidance on CPR, chest imaging, hydroxychloroquine
Medical societies addressed appropriate resuscitation and chest imaging practices for patients with COVID-19, issued guidelines on treatment and management, and warned about arrhythmia risks with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/14/1.htm
14 Apr 2020
Studies assess responses, reactions to vaccines; long-term effects of COVID-19 infection
Recent COVID-19 vaccine studies showed good response in pregnant women, as well as possible localized rashes from the Moderna vaccine. Analyses of ICU patients and those treated at a post-COVID-19 clinic highlighted the long-term effects of the virus, and a study found that dialysis patients maintained antibodies six months after COVID-19 infection.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/05/18/1.htm
18 May 2021
Progress and limitations on vaccines, strokes and readmissions in COVID-19
A report warned that a few health care workers developed COVID-19 shortly after vaccination, and studies showed that strokes were rare in COVID-19 patients but readmissions could not be predicted easily.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/09/1.htm
9 Feb 2021
COVID-19 research looks at aspirin, disparities, long-term outcomes
Recent aspirin use may be associated with improved COVID-19 outcomes, and hospitals had widely differing mortality rates in April 2020. Half of discharged patients reported ongoing symptoms at four months, and most ICU patients showed evidence of impairments at one month, new studies found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/23/1.htm
23 Mar 2021
New data on delta variant of COVID-19 and vaccines
Recent research found that the risk of myocarditis and both arterial and venous clots is higher with COVID-19 infection than with vaccine administration. Other studies show that the COVID-19 delta variant has been associated with reduced mRNA vaccine effectiveness (from 91% to 66%) and an overall increased severity of illness.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/31/1.htm
31 Aug 2021
Research, news about COVID-19 vaccines, resources from ACP on flu vaccination
Results of vaccine trials were positive, but concerns arose about safety.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/09/15/1.htm
15 Sep 2020
Latest COVID-19 research looks at obesity, AKI, nursing home prescribing, symptom checkers
Acute kidney injury (AKI) may have more severe consequences after COVID-19, nursing home residents received risky drugs during the pandemic, and an online symptom checker didn't triage safely, but preprocedural COVID-19 testing showed that vaccinations reduced asymptomatic infections.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/16/1.htm
16 Mar 2021
Clot concerns with adenovirus COVID-19 vaccines, antibody treatment recommendations and data
Based on reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis with the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine, federal officials recommended a pause in its use, which will be reconsidered on April 23. The NIH updated its recommendations on monoclonal antibody treatments for outpatients.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/20/1.htm
20 Apr 2021
CDC updates guidance on COVID-19, studies show vitamins don't improve outcomes
The CDC offered new guidance on immunocompromised patients and pulse oximetry's accuracy, and recent trials showed that vitamin D, zinc, and ascorbic acid didn't help COVID-19 patients but prophylactic anticoagulation did.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/23/1.htm
23 Feb 2021