Here's Why COVID-19 Mortality Has Dropped There's no single answer, but a host of contributing factors Nov 17, 2020
43% Cardiac Arrest Survival? ECMO Strategy Promising in Early Studies Exceeded expectations for outcomes Nov 13, 2020
Patient's Ventricles Removed as Bridge to Heart Transplant Rare therapy a variation of BIVAD support Nov 11, 2020
Cardiac ICU: AHA Drafts Guidance for Best Practices Scientific statement aims to optimize specialized critical care, pending more rigorous evidence Oct 29, 2020
Physicians Push Back on Trump's Claim of Inflated COVID Deaths Accusations provoke outrage; but president has his believers too Oct 27, 2020
Newborns Getting Preoperative Blood Transfusions Have More Complications Data favor restrictive transfusion strategy Oct 22, 2020
First COVID-19 Wave Offers ICUs Lessons for Next Time Medication shortages forced hospitals to get creative, but staff shortages still loom large Oct 20, 2020
More Evidence Points to Role of Blood Type in COVID-19 Two studies find ties to infection susceptibility, severity, but with caveats Oct 14, 2020
Kaletra Again Fails for Moderate-to-Severe COVID-19 RECOVERY trial affirms smaller trial findings Oct 05, 2020
COVID-19 Storms: Bradykinin In, Cytokine Out? Papers poke holes in cytokine storm as gene expression study offers a new theory Sep 11, 2020
Bedside MRI Feasible in ICU, for COVID-19 Study showed abnormalities found without any complications from the device Sep 09, 2020
When COVID-19 Really Is 'Just Another Flu' Imagine a world as jaded about SARS-CoV-2 as it is about influenza Sep 08, 2020
The Cost of Herd Immunity in the U.S. Likely involves more than a million deaths; "That cannot be our price" Sep 01, 2020
REALITY Check: Stricter RBC Transfusion Safe for Anemic MI Patients Restrictive strategy makes sense for clinical outcomes, costs Sep 01, 2020
Ivermectin for COVID-19: Worth a Shot? Evidence base limited, including one withdrawn study with Surgisphere data Aug 27, 2020
Smoking Gun Found for Virus in MIS-C Heart Damage Case First case report documenting viral particles in the heart in MIS-C Aug 24, 2020
New York Hospital Visitor Policies Too Strict for ICU, Docs Say "In truly grave situations, people need more support" Aug 19, 2020
ECMO Gets a Win in Severe COVID-19 High success rate seen at two Chicago centers counters early reports Aug 11, 2020
Running Low on New N95s? Reach for These Alternatives Some worked almost as well in a lab study Aug 11, 2020
RLF-100: Hope or Hype for COVID-19 Patients? A synthetic human vasoactive intestinal peptide looks good now, but it's early Aug 10, 2020
Skin Rashes a Clue to COVID-19 Vascular Disease Certain skin manifestations tied to coagulopathy in the sickest patients Aug 05, 2020
COPD Triple Therapy: Balancing Benefits and Harms Signal of mortality benefit grows stronger Jul 31, 2020
COVID-19 May Plant Seeds of HF, Cardiomyopathy Studies raise concern of chronic CV complications post-pandemic Jul 27, 2020
Family Audio Recordings Help Humanize COVID-19 ICU Patients for Medical Staff Program at Johns Hopkins helps clinicians learn the personal side of their patients Jul 24, 2020 podcast
Artists Honor COVID-19 Frontline Healthcare Workers Portraits capture challenging times; syringe art injects hope and love Jul 23, 2020
COVID-Positive Doc: 'I Didn't Wear a Mask and I Regret It' Outdoor gathering leads to COVID spread among family members Jul 21, 2020
RECOVERY: Steroid Benefit in Severe COVID-19 Holds Up Sickest patients helped the most, drug already added to NIH guidelines Jul 17, 2020
Does Delirium Cause Long-Term Cognitive Decline? Analysis has "great implications in the COVID era" Jul 13, 2020
How Often Does COVID-19 Combine Forces With Other Viruses? Largest study yet suggests lower likelihood... for now Jul 09, 2020
Broadway Star Loses COVID-19 Battle After fighting the virus for over three months, Nick Cordero passed away Jul 09, 2020
COVID-19 Lungs May Be More Likely to Leak Observational study suggests higher rate than in other causes of ARDS Jul 07, 2020
More Data Suggest Proning Helps COVID-19 Patients Observational data add to evidence of benefit in ARDS, though randomized trials still needed Jun 17, 2020
Finally: Common Drug Improves COVID-19 Survival in Trial "A ground-breaking development," according to preliminary data from an ongoing trial Jun 16, 2020
Don't Skip Opiates for ‘Air Hunger’ From COVID-19 Ventilation Other drugs don't cut it to ease the traumatic sensation, group argues Jun 05, 2020