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Articles Tagged With: COVID-19

  • Caring After COVID: Is Brain Impairment After Severe COVID-19 Worse Than Other Diseases?

    The authors of this prospective cohort study with matched controls found that long-term brain health following severe COVID-19 hospitalization was impaired but was similar to hospitalization from other severe diseases.

  • How a ‘Breaking the Rules’ Campaign Engages Staff and Uncovers Outdated Policies

    With clinician burnout, a boarding crisis, moral distress, and other concerns making it tough for healthcare leaders to retain staff, it is nice to have an employee-pleasing strategy that can not only make healthcare workers feel as though they have an important voice but also boost operational efficiency. That is the idea behind the “Breaking the Rules for Better Care” initiative spearheaded by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

  • COVID Shot 54% Effective in Preventing Infection

    Immunization with the updated COVID-19 vaccine provided approximately 54% increased protection against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to no receipt of the updated vaccine.

  • Still Standing: Antivaxx Groups Fail to Intimidate Hotez

    On Feb. 1, 2022, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, was nominated, along with a colleague, for the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to design and distribute a nonproprietary, free COVID-19 vaccine to impoverished nations globally. The very next day Hotez received an email with the subject line: “You will hang for crimes against humanity.” Hotez recently documented this harassment and attempts at intimidation in his new book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning.

  • Threat of Reinfection Includes Long COVID

    Accumulating research suggests reinfections with SARS-CoV-2 increase the likelihood of developing long COVID, the horrific post-acute syndrome with indefinite duration and a panoply of neurological, autoimmune, and physical conditions. Moreover, the risk of developing long COVID incrementally increases with each reinfection, according to a study that found this cumulative effect continues in up to three reinfections.

  • Wounded Healers: Long COVID Community Helps Its Own

    Despite her limitations, Karyn Bishof, MS, founded the COVID-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project and began distributing information to others. Hospital Employee Heath reached out to Bishof for an interview.

  • CDC Seeks Clarity on Masks, Respirators

    An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently completed draft isolation guidelines for respiratory patients, but got a thumbs down and a loaded question for their trouble: “Should N95 respirators be recommended for all pathogens that spread by the air?”

  • Is Brain Impairment Following COVID-19 Hospitalization Worse Than for Other Severe Illnesses?

    The authors of this prospective cohort study with matched controls found that long-term brain health following severe COVID-19 hospitalization was impaired but was similar to hospitalization from other severe diseases.

  • The Pandemic Did Not Affect Single-Visit LARC Insertion

    Adolescents who used public insurance and were seeing a non-OB/GYN provider had lower odds of a single-visit placement of long-acting reversible contraception, new research shows.

  • Blood Pressure Management with Devices Improved Outcomes During the Pandemic

    When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted case management, care coordination, transitions, and clinical monitoring of patients with chronic illness, the entire health industry switched to remote monitoring, virtual clinic visits, and virtual case management whenever feasible. A new study revealed that using self-measured blood pressure monitoring and telehealth were among the top ways healthcare professionals adapted to the pandemic’s forced limits on in-person clinic visits.