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Anchor lead: Experts in drug addiction are sounding an alarm about vulnerabilities in this population in the setting of the pandemic, Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost 70,000 people died in 2018 in the United States due to drug overdoses, a number …
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Anchor lead: What can people who leave the ICU after Covid-19 expect? Elizabeth Tracey reports ICU stays are fraught with challenges, and these continue even after someone leaves the unit. Johns Hopkins has created a special unit to help people …
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Anchor lead: People who’ve been hospitalized with severe COVID-19 may need special rehabilitation, Elizabeth Tracey reports Getting out of the intensive care unit when you’ve been on a ventilator with severe COVID-19 disease is good news, yet most people will …
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Anchor lead: What is the role of ventilators in managing severe COVID-19? Elizabeth Tracey reports When it comes of managing people with severe COVID-19 disease, some clinicians are questioning the need for ventilators, citing low survival rates and lengthy hospitalization. …
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Anchor lead: People with COVID-19 infection may have low oxygen levels in their blood yet not seem to struggling to breath, Elizabeth Tracey reports COVID-19 infection sometimes results in low oxygen levels in someone’s blood yet they don’t say they …
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Anchor lead: Using ultrasound helps clinicians track status of COVID-19 infection in real time, Elizabeth Tracey reports Ultrasound is able to detect lung and heart changes related to COVID-19 infection quickly and reliably, Johns Hopkins critical medicine expert Brian Garibaldi …
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Anchor lead: Can using ultrasound at the bedside improve care for COVID-19 patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports Using ultrasound technology at the bedside of patients with COVID-19 infection is proving very useful in managing the disease. That’s according to Brian Garibaldi, …
