Even before COVID-19 ravaged the medical workforce, physicians, nurses, and other health workers were at increased risk for burnout and depression. Although these professionals are equipped to manage…
Occupational therapists and occupational therapy (OT) assistants at NYU Langone Health are finding themselves working on the front line of this pandemic to help patients recover from COVID-19.…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a study conducted in Singapore indicate that vasopressin administered to patients in prolonged cardiac arrest does not improve survival to hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The benefit of renin-angiotensin system inhibition in systolic heart failure (HF) extends to older patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), a new study…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data from the National Inpatient Sample indicate that vena cava filters reduce the in-hospital fatality rate among patients with pulmonary embolism who are…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients receiving rehabilitation for prolonged disorders of consciousness after severe traumatic brain injury show an accelerated pace of cognitive recovery when treated with…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For reversal of type 1 hepatorenal syndrome, treatment with noradrenaline seems to work as well as terlipressin and is a lot less expensive,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For patients with acute lung injury on mechanical ventilation, restricting the amount of enteral nutrition provided does not reduce the number of days…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients with a recent non-cardioembolic ischemic stroke who are found to have a silent brain infarction (SBI) on MRI are not at significantly…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Discontinuation of aspirin within 5 days of combined coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and valve surgery is associated with an increased risk of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – N-acetylcysteine is increasingly used to prevent contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) but it is not effective, according to a paper in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions for…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For nosocomial pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), linezolid is more effective and better tolerated than the gold standard vancomycin, according to…
