Search Tag: epidemiology
Trends-in-epidemiology-and-antimicrobial-resistance-in-intensive-care-units
2019 14 Mar
The intensive care unit has a unique environment, mainly because it treats severe and critically ill patients who require special care. Critical care patients often require high-risk surgeries, and there is also a frequent need for invasive devices such as central or peripheral venous catheters, urinary catheters or tracheal tubes, among others. This...Read more
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2019 01 Oct
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Contact-tracing-looking-into-technologies-and-adoption
2020 09 Jun
The choice of the mobile technology used for contact tracing substantially affects the social and economic cost of quarantine policies, while the adoption rate can be lower than commonly thought. You might also like: COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Apps vs. Manual Work The importance of monitoring and controlling emerging infectious...Read more
Covid-19-transmission-among-close-contacts
2020 22 Jun
New research from Guangzhou, China has found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen that causes COVID-19, can be transmitted faster within households as compared to SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). You might also like: Alternating Lockdowns and Relaxation...Read more
Explaining-linear-covid-19-spread
2020 27 Aug
During the initial wave of the COVID-19 contagion, many countries recorded infection curves that were linear for extended time periods. This linear growth over an extended time interval is in contrast to the S-shaped curves expected from standard epidemiological models. You might also like: Mobility, Connectivity and Pandemics of Modern...Read more
Protecting-vulnerable-populations-from-covid-19
2020 12 Nov
Why health governance and operations matter to implement interventions fast. Bavarian perspective Elderly residents of long-term care facilities have been among the groups most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many other countries, Germany and its states have implemented targeted measures to manage the pandemic. Bavaria specifically...Read more
Pandemic-control-new-dynamic-metrics-for-proactive-action
2020 08 Dec
Without a national and coordinated response to COVID-19, the United States has been ineffective at preventing and mitigating the escalating pandemic. What the country needs, according to new research ( Post et al. 2020) , is a dynamic public health surveillance to better inform prevention efforts. You might also like: COVID-19: Immunity-Based...Read more
Digital-contact-tracing-case-study-from-spain
2021 31 Jan
A new research looks into the use of digital contact tracing (DCT) technologies during the pandemic, based on a real-life controlled experiment in Spain. You might also like : Automated Contact Tracing: Is It Efficient? While several countries have deployed DCT applications, to date there is no evidence that such digital...Read more
57th-annual-meeting-of-the-european-association-for-the-study-of-diabetes-easd-2021
2021 27 Sep
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Estimated-plasma-volume-epv-in-critical-care
2022 28 Apr
Speakers Thomas Metkus, MD Divisions of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Departments of Medicine and Surgery Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Dennis Begos, MD, FACS, FACRS Medical Director, Medical and Scientific Affairs...Read more