Search Tag: pandemic
Who-committee-to-meet-on-coronavirus-emergency-status
2020 30 Jan
The Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) will be reconvened by the World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today. The meeting is planned to start at 13:30 Geneva time. The virus, named 2019-nCoV, originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, apparently from wild animals sold at a market, with...Read more
Esr-offers-online-ecr-congress-in-face-of-wuhan-virus
2020 03 Feb
The European Society of Radiology (ESR) has reassured delegates already booked for the event and pointed to the option of attending its congress online as concerns about the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus grow. ESR is holding its ECR meeting in Vienna from March 11 to 15. “So far, there has not been a single cancellation of an ECR 2020...Read more
Drones-shame-coronavirus-health-offenders
2020 08 Feb
In healthcare, drones to date have traditionally been used to deliver supplies to remote or inaccessible areas. In the face of the C oronavirus 2019-nCoV spreading across China, the flying machines are now being deployed to press people into donning protective facemasks as part of multiple measures to control the virus. Chinese police in...Read more
Covid-19-pandemic-salute-to-the-healthcare-soldiers
2020 16 Mar
Amidst the panic and mayhem caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the mood in most intensive care units is strange and somber. Caring for high numbers of patients, planning for providing this care, lab testing and diagnosis, lots of paperwork, and ICU teams pulling together because that is the need of the day. You might also like : Clinical...Read more
Allocating-ventilators-in-a-pandemic
2020 24 Mar
Life has come to a standstill as critical care doctors continue to battle COVID-19. The pandemic has led to shortages of essential goods and services - from hand sanitizers to masks to beds to ventilators. Today, the healthcare system is facing the prospect of rationing medical goods and services. Mechanical ventilation, in particular, has come...Read more
Radiologists-take-advantage-of-covid-19-downtime
2020 21 Apr
Screening imaging examinations, similar to many other elective medical procedures, are generally being put off as part of measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This has resulted in significantly reduced volume of cases for many radiology departments. You might also like : The View from Italy and...Read more
Covid-19-new-pandemic-offers-a-new-chance-to-be-well-together
2020 11 May
Summary: A physician examines how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the health of patients and healthcare workers, and proposes strategies to improve wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 offers a new challenge for the world community not seen since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 (Bernhardt 2020). The world community, in large part, has...Read more
Covid-19-challenges
2020 19 May
C oronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to spread. While nations that were hit early are now seeing a flattening of the curve from mitigation strategies, countries that have been hit more recently continue to suffer. It is true that the majority of the population experiences mild symptoms of the disease, but age, comorbidity, and male sex are important...Read more
Staff-mental-health-protection-in-pandemic
2020 27 May
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A-potted-history-of-my-change
2020 21 Apr
For the last year I have been in a role working to create what it means to be a disruptive leader, a leader of innovation and change in a large, trusted and old organisation loved for its origins and trusted behaviour. Not quite 12 months in, and so much has suddenly happened. The world has changed rapidly, and now I am leading in an environment...Read more
Masimo-announces-masimo-safetynet-opentm
2020 19 Jun
Suite of Integrated Turnkey Tools Helps Businesses, Governments, and Schools Reopen and Stay Open Responsibly During COVID-19 IRVINE, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced Masimo SafetyNet-Open™, designed to help businesses, governments, and schools more responsibly manage employee and student health and safety...Read more
Covid-19-management
2020 23 Jun
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the globe, spreading to new regions and threatening with resurgence in those already affected, healthcare professionals are working tirelessly to develop and implement effective strategies for patient treatment, organisational management and public health measures. They are also looking beyond the pandemic...Read more
Towards-post-covid-19-lessons-and-challenges-for-hospitals-and-healthcare-infrastructures
2020 23 Jun
There is evidence of viral assaults possible repetitiveness in the foreseeable future. Prevention and preparedness are essential, especially for the health sector. Learning from the dramatic experience of Italy with COVID-19, this article addresses the major aspects of the role of the health technicians who, in parallel with the managerial and...Read more
How-is-the-pandemic-affecting-radiology-practice
2020 23 Jun
An overview of how the Radiology Department at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona handled the COVID-19 pandemic and how this disease will change the way radiology is practiced. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major changes in clinical activity at our radiology department. The radiology department at Hospital Clínic in Barcelona carries out more...Read more
Diagnostic-imaging-in-the-age-of-covid-19
2020 23 Jun
In a disease surrounded by unknowns, patients’ imaging is shedding a light on the course of COVID-19. Radiology in the age of COVID-19 During this relative respite that the COVID-19 offers us after the purportedly first peak of the pandemic, we can reflect on how this tiny virus changed our lives. For the healthcare system, the adaptation...Read more
Healthcare-has-no-excuse-for-another-pandemic-like-covid-19
2020 23 Jun
A global health consultant and top TED Talk presenter comments on how healthcare around the world has responded to COVID-19 and suggests practical steps for avoiding a future pandemic of the same scale. As a global health expert, what do you think some of the best measures against the spread of COVID-19 have been around the world? Which...Read more
Delivering-acute-cardiac-care-during-a-pandemic-seeds-of-opportunity-within-a-crisis
2020 23 Jun
In this article, we discuss some of the potential opportunities for positive changes in service provision that may emerge from the COVID-19 public health crisis, with a particular emphasis on changes enacted in our own service. Introduction “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for...Read more
Covid-19-no-return-to-normal
2020 23 Jun
A patient engagement authority reflects on the impact of pharma’s response to COVID-19 and outlines hope for a better perception of the sector as providers of health solutions beyond the pill. Since the first awareness of COVID-19 in the medical press and alert to the World Health Organization on December 31 2019, global health...Read more
Hospital-preparedness-during-covid-19
2020 08 Jul
One of the biggest challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the delivery of mass critical care. SARS-CoV-2 has put a significant strain on intensive care in most countries across the globe. This has become even more of a challenge because of a lack of staff and essential supplies. It is evident that in order to better cope with such a challenging...Read more
Ecr2020-covid-19-lessons-and-questions
2020 16 Jul
During one of the plenary lectures, "COVID-19: Lessons and Questions from a Pandemic" at the #ECR2020 Virtual Congress, Dr. Marie-Pierre Revel, Professor of Radiology and Head of Cardiothoracic imaging at Hôpital Cochin in Paris said that COVID-19 was the greatest health threat that humanity has had to face since the Spanish flu. COVID-19 has...Read more
Epidemic-preparedness-and-rapid-identification-of-pathogens
2020 30 Jul
In recent years, infectious disease outbreaks have occurred with increasing frequency. Even though significant progress has been made to identify potentially dangerous pathogens, a lot still needs to be done. In particular, diagnostics can play an important role in controlling epidemics. There is a need to develop and deploy diagnostics that...Read more
Sharp-decline-in-heart-transplants-during-covid-19
2020 30 Jul
The number of heart transplants in the United States declined sharply during the beginning of the pandemic, even in areas of the country with few COVID-19 cases at the time, according to an analysis by researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The study found that the number of heart transplants performed nationwide dropped 26%...Read more
Covid-19-superheroes
2020 03 Aug
COVID-19 has affected 15 million people across the globe, and meanwhile, over 600,000 deaths are associated with it. Even my father, having some pre-conditions, passed away because of it. The healthcare systems and economies of more than 200 countries have been severely affected, also impacting healthcare workers both physically and psychologically....Read more
Tragedy-of-covid-19
2020 03 Aug
Adaora Okoli is a medical doctor working to strengthen health systems in low-income communities and achieve equitable access to health for all. In 2014, she contracted the Ebola Virus Disease while treating a patient in Nigeria and had to fight for her own life. Since then she has been an advocate for survivors, universal health coverage and global...Read more
Covid-19-global-response-strengths-weaknesses-success-and-failure
2020 11 Aug
An overview of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic – the success of South Korea, the so-called herd-immunity experiment of Sweden and the not-so-brilliant COVID-19 management in the U.K. and the U.S. South Korea's Successful Three-Phased Response to COVID-19 COVID-19 has created havoc around the globe. Some countries have...Read more
Lessons-from-covid-19-icu-preparedness-ethical-issues-and-digital-congresses
2020 14 Sep
Jean-Louis Vincent is a Consultant in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels and a Professor of Intensive Care at the Université libre de Bruxelles.He is the editor-in-chief of ICU Management & Practice, Critical Care, and Current Opinion in Critical Care and member of the editorial board of many other healthcare...Read more
Predicament-prevention-for-pandemics
2020 14 Sep
COVID-19 has resulted in an enormous demand for critical care personnell and increased consumption of resources. How can healthcare systems prepare for the allocation of scarce resources? Introduction Health care crises, like the COVID-19 pandemic, can lead to a pronounced regional, national and even supranational discrepancy between...Read more