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Aquadex Ultrafiltration for Critical COVID Patients: Interview with John Erb, CEO at CHF Solutions
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many healthcare facilities around the world are inundated with critically ill patients, and resources such as equipment and staff are stretched thin. Shortages of critical equipment, such as ventilators, can mean t...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Critical Care Exclusive Source Type: blogs

COVID-19: Physicians in Shackles
By ANISH KOKA, MD A number of politically tinged narratives have divided physicians during the pandemic. It would be unfortunate if politics obscured the major problem brought into stark relief by the pandemic: a system that marginalizes physicians and strips them of agency. In practices big and small, hospital-employed or private practice, nursing homes or hospitals, there are serious issues raising their heads for doctors and their patients. No masks for you When I walked into my office Thursday, March 12th, I assembled the office staff for the first time to talk about COVID.  The prior weekend had been awa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Physicians Anish Koka medical autonomy Pandemic Source Type: blogs

Can The Tablighi Jamaat ’s Conference be India’s Own Epidemiological Diamond Princess?
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH, MD “It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.” Abhijit Naskar, Biopsy of Religions: Neuroanalysis Towards Universal Tolerance On February 3, 2020, the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess docked on Japanese shores and was promptly quarantined with 3711 people on board, because a passenger who had disembarked at Hong Kong two days earlier had tested positive for SARS-Cov-2,  or also known as  COVID-19. Passengers & crew members were either repatriated or hospitalized in Japan over the next 4 weeks. In total,, more than 700 of them were ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Diamond Princess India Somalaram Venkatesh Tablighi Jamat Source Type: blogs

NASA JPL Ventilator Goes From Development to On-Site Testing in 37 Days
Add the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the list of groups that have re-focused their efforts to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic. The same organization that put men on the moon has now developed a prototype ventila...
Source: Medgadget - April 27, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Public Health Source Type: blogs

Even Republicans Want to Outlaw Surprise Medical Billing
Conclusion Surprise billing is generally not a problem with Medicare or Medicaid. But for others under age 65, we need new regulations which must be non-negotiable. State health departments must be empowered to cancel overcharges, which will still occur despite regulations. If we can establish reforms now, in a time of crisis, the new laws have a chance to be permanent when the crisis is over. For now, we must: Immediately ban providers from sending balance bills for out-of-network health care services related to the coronavirus. Require insurers to make a payment for these services on a timely basis and limit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Bob Hertz Cost Sharing economic reform health economics surprise billing Source Type: blogs

Being a pregnant medical trainee just got more complicated in the COVID-19 era
As a cardiology fellow in a busy New York City hospital, my life has snowballed into chaos. Just last week, I was a pregnant doctor completing her second trimester, waddling down the halls of the hospital with an echocardiogram machine in tow, taking care of sick cardiac patients. Now a viral pandemic has invaded all […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/pritha-subramanyam" rel="tag" > Pritha Subramanyam, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Cardiology COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease OB/GYN Source Type: blogs

B. Braun Infusion Pumps with Nebulizers Get FDA Emergency Authorization for COVID-19
Combining infusion pumps with nebulizers has been shown to help deliver nebulized medication to patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome. Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA has just issued Emergency Use Authorization for ...
Source: Medgadget - April 16, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Public Health Source Type: blogs

COVID-19: The Nursing Home Tragedy
By ANISH KOKA, MD Our strategy with nursing homes in the midst of the current pandemic is bad.  Nursing homes and other long term care facilities house some of our sickest patients in and it is apparent we have no cogent strategy to protect them.  I attempted to reassure an anxious nursing home resident a few weeks ago. I told him that it appeared for now that the community level transmission in Philadelphia was low, and that I was optimistic we could keep residents safe with simple maneuvers like better hand hygiene, restricting visitors, as well as stricter policies with regards to keeping caregivers wit...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Anish Koka elderly patients nursing home Nursing Homes Pandemic Source Type: blogs

The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
By ANISH KOKA, MD COVID is here. A little strand of RNA that used to live in bats has a new host.  And that strand is clearly not the flu.  New York is overrun, with more than half of the nation’s new cases per day, and refrigerated 18-wheelers parked outside hospitals serve as makeshift morgues.  Detroit, New Orleans, Miami, and Philadelphia await an inevitable surge of their own with bated breath.  America’s health care workers are scrambling to hold the line against a deluge of sick patients arriving hourly at a rate that’s hard to fathom.  I pause here to attest to the heroic r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka coronavirus Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs

Quotes and songs to help you survive COVID-19
I ’m a cardiology fellow on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many, I know suffering. In 2017, I lost my father to rapidly progressive dementia. I was postpartum at the time, and he did not even know I was ever pregnant. My stepfather— my father since I was eight years old— the […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 7, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mary-branch" rel="tag" > Mary Branch, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

COVID-19 and America ’s true colors
During times of stress, true colors show. The United States is a global leader and literally a dream for millions around the world. During the pandemic pandemonium, we should want to be proud to be American. What does that mean right now, though? After the government ’s expansive recent transformations in their role with emergency programs […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mark-p-abrams" rel="tag" > Mark P. Abrams, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Cardiology COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

How does cardiovascular disease increase the risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19?
Based on reports from China, we know that most COVID-19 patients (about 80%) will develop mild flulike symptoms, including fever, dry cough, and body aches that can be managed at home. 20% will develop more serious symptoms, such as pneumonia requiring hospitalization, with about a quarter of these requiring ICU-level care. Initial reports focused on the respiratory effects of COVID-19, such as pneumonia and difficulty breathing. But more recent literature has described serious cardiovascular complications occurring in about 10% to 20% of hospitalized patients. Someone with pre-existing heart disease who becomes ill with C...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dara K. Lee Lewis, MD Tags: Health Heart Health Hypertension and Stroke Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs

India ’s COVID Conundrum: To Lockdown or Not to Lockdown
By SOMALARAM VENKATESH, MD  In “Asterix and the Roman Agent”, Julius Caesar deploys Tortuous Convolvulus to cause internal conflict among the Indomitable Gauls. Until then, the only fights the peaceful Gaulish village witnessed were between Unhygienix, the fishmonger and Fulliautomatix, the village smith. The Gauls always stood united against the Roman army and in spite of the occasional free-for-all, would always come together at the end for a boisterous feast.  In the new millennium, India – like many other countries – has exhibited deep fault lines circumscribing hardened ideologies. It i...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy lockdown Source Type: blogs

CardioQuip ’s Cooler-Heaters EU Cleared to Help With Respiratory Distress
CardioQuip, a firm based in College Station, Texas, won European regulatory approval (CE Mark) for its MCH-1000 cooler-heaters that are used to control patient body temperature, typically during lung or heart procedures. This could be particularly us...
Source: Medgadget - April 1, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Source Type: blogs

INVU Receives FDA Clearance for Remote Pregnancy Monitoring System
Nuvo Group announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market INVU, a wearable device that remotely monitors fetal and maternal heart rates. Fetal and maternal heart rates are important measurements late in pregnancy, and an e...
Source: Medgadget - March 31, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Cardiology Ob/Gyn Source Type: blogs