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Medical Category: Infectious Disease

N95 Mask Decontamination and Reuse

Introduction: N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFP, from here out referred to as N95) are designed to filter out 95% of airborne particles and are intended for single use. During the COVID19 pandemic, N95s are in short supply forcing us to ...

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Infectious Disease

Why COVID-19 Screening Protocols Won’t Work

Many facilities are using COVID-19 screening protocols to determine how to cohort patients in the ED. Although this sounded like a good idea initially, this strategy is destined to fail.  Early on in the pandemic, we thought we could identify ...

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Infectious Disease

COVID-19: Thrombosis and Hemoglobin

The Novel Coronavirus 2019, was first reported on in Wuhan, China in late December 2019.  The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 and on March 11th, 2020, the outbreak was declared a global ...

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Infectious Disease

REBEL Cast Ep79: COVID-19 – Trying Not to Intubate Early & Why ARDSnet may be the Wrong Ventilator Paradigm

Hey there REBEL Cast listeners, Salim Rezaie here.  For me and I am sure many COVID-19 has been quite the whirlwind.  So much information, so little time to process all of it.  Meanwhile, many of us are on the frontlines ...

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Infectious DiseaseThoracic and Respiratory

COVID-19 Hypoxemia: A Better and Still Safe Way

I have been thinking a lot about patients with COVID-19 and the pulmonary pattern that they develop.  This disease process has been categorized like ARDS, but the reality is it is not like “typical” ARDS.  Lung compliance is often normal ...

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Infectious DiseaseResuscitation

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