Viruswatch - Evidence-Based COVID Medicine and Nursing

Today we’re addressing a question that’s been at the forefront of many of our minds as we’ve been caring for COVID patients: we’re talking all about healthcare worker infections. Despite an extensive review of the literature, there are still many unanswered questions; but here is what we know so far.

They may sound like superheroes, but they’re more like the villains of these COVIDian times. We’re talking all about superspreaders today!

They teased us with a press release weeks ago, and Faucci has been promoting it ever since – and now, we finally have the data from the ACTT-1 trial on remdesivir. Here we take a closer look to see if this really is the “very promising result” it was sold as.

Today we’re focused on POCUS! Here’s what you need to know about point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19: we cover protocols, key infection control measures, POCUS findings in COVID, and how to incorporate this tool into your clinical care during the pandemic.

We’re talking about the little adults today! In particular, we’re diving into the reported Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome/Kawasaki Disease that has been reported in association with COVID-19 in kids.

Today we’re talking about something that has been on the mind of many mothers and mothers-to-be: the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Like Voldemort at the end of The Goblet of Fire, lopinavir/ritonavir seems to have come back from the dead…maybe? We look through the evidence base, including a promising trial published this week in the Lancet.

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Today we’re exploring a COVID-complication that has caught a lot of attention on social media: hypercoagulability. We go through the literature on clinical features, lab abnormalities, and therapeutic options.

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We’re looking optimistically to the future today and talking about the development of potential vaccines for COVID. All the information below has been amalgamated from the review pieces cited.

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Today we’re tackling a question with a lot of public health implications as we consider how to move forward in this pandemic (and potentially being to loosen restrictions). A huge part of that equation is the question of immunity: are people who have previously been infected immune to COVID; or could they become re-infected and continue to transmit the virus? And could antibody tests help us determine who has already been infected (perhaps asymptomatically)?

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