I ’ m Baaack
This week I returned to work after needed to stay off and isolated for the last week. While I didn’t come to work, I wouldn’t consider it a vacation. My days were filled with taking care of the toddler (3 year old) while my wife worked from home. In one word, it was exhausting.
As far as recovering goes, I noticed improvement almost each day in terms of the severity of my cough. I was coughing less frequently each day. I never developed a fever. I also never developed any shortness of breath or difficulty breathing.
And so, here I am, back at work.
Stay safe and healthy, everyone. The post I’m Baa...
Source: JeffreyMD.com - April 7, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dr. Jeff Tags: After Residency My Life covid19 doctor physician sick leave Source Type: blogs
Patients & Vulnerable Populations Pandemically Left in the Dark
By GRACE CORDOVANO PhD, BCPA
To be honest, the United States blew it on the mask front. From a public health, caregiver and patient safety, as well as community transmission standpoint, we are at least 3 months late to game. Anytime a brand new virus that humanity does not have any immunity to makes an appearance, is highly contagious, starts rapidly infecting people as well as the doctors and nurses caring for them, hospitalizing, and killing them in concerning numbers across the globe, we should enable every proactive safety measure at our disposal.
The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the US was on January 20,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy coronavirus Grace Cordovano masks Pandemic Source Type: blogs
How does cardiovascular disease increase the risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19?
Based on reports from China, we know that most COVID-19 patients (about 80%) will develop mild flulike symptoms, including fever, dry cough, and body aches that can be managed at home. 20% will develop more serious symptoms, such as pneumonia requiring hospitalization, with about a quarter of these requiring ICU-level care.
Initial reports focused on the respiratory effects of COVID-19, such as pneumonia and difficulty breathing. But more recent literature has described serious cardiovascular complications occurring in about 10% to 20% of hospitalized patients.
Someone with pre-existing heart disease who becomes ill with C...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dara K. Lee Lewis, MD Tags: Health Heart Health Hypertension and Stroke Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
BiWaze Cough System Receives FDA Clearance to Help Clear Secretions
ABM Respiratory Care, a company with offices in USA, Singapore, and India, announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to market its BiWaze Cough System, a device for removing secretions in patients who are unable to cough or clear secretions effectively.
The BiWaze Cough System consists of a touch-screen device connected to a non-invasive suctioning mask. It is a portable alternative to the invasive and more involved process of upper airway suctioning. The system also provides high frequency oscillations, between 5-20 Hz, to break up thick secretions and facilitate their removal from the lungs.
The touc...
Source: Medgadget - April 2, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Cardiology Medicine Neurology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Outsourcing Fact Checking, and Reputation with It
This article is very much important to each and every one of us. Please read and retweet it. COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US.https://t.co/LPanIo40MR— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517)March 13, 2020This deliberate disinformation was met withcalls for Twitter to remove Zhao ’s tweets. Twitter refrained from removing the tweets but posted an update to their misinformation policies,stating: “Official government accounts engaging in conversation about the origins of the virus and global public conversation about potential emergent treatments will be permitted, unless the content contains clear...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 1, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
‘Not Just Dots On a Map’: SLPs Speak Their Truth From the COVID-19 Battlefront
Tuesday, March 10. Speech-language pathologist Fatima Warren was grocery shopping with her grandmother when she first noticed the painful body aches. Chalking it up to the rainy day and an earlier workout, she ran a hot bath.
Wednesday, March 11. Warren woke up with chills, fever, and worsening aches. She drove straight to the closest ER in her hometown of Lexington, Kentucky. There, staff ran numerous tests, but not for COVID-19. The 45-year-old didn’t qualify because she hadn’t traveled outside the country and couldn’t name a contact with the virus.
Thursday, March 12. Worried about infecting her 13-year-old son an...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 1, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bridget Murray Law Tags: Slider Speech-Language Pathology Uncategorized acute care Cognitive Rehabilitation Dysphagia FEES Health Care MBSS personal protective equipment skilled nursing facilities Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Paid Leave
I have seen that a few companies are offering paid leave if their workers test positive for COVID19. In theory this is great. In reality, this is bogus.
Policies are worded very specifically. Most of the statements I have seen that list paid leave are for patients that TEST positive for COVID19.
The problem is we do not have enough tests!
At my practice (a large, tertiary, University-based clinic in Southern California), we are operating under the assumption that most people who contract COVID19 will have a mild form of the disease that will not require a hospital admission. However, they will need...
Source: JeffreyMD.com - March 31, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dr. Jeff Tags: After Residency My Life covid19 doctor internal medicine paid leave physician Source Type: blogs
Paid Leave
I have seen that a few companies are offering paid leave if their workers test positive for COVID19. In theory this is great. In reality, this is bogus.
Policies are worded very specifically. Most of the statements I have seen that list paid leave are for patients that TEST positive for COVID19.
The problem is we do not have enough tests!
At my practice (a large, tertiary, University-based clinic in Southern California), we are operating under the assumption that most people who contract COVID19 will have a mild form of the disease that will not require a hospital admission. However, they will need...
Source: JeffreyMD.com - March 31, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dr. Jeff Tags: After Residency My Life covid19 doctor internal medicine paid leave physician Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 and Audiology: Closed Practices, Empty Campuses, Halted Research
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the country, most everyone has had to adapt in some way to accommodate this strange new normal—audiologists and hearing researchers included.
With calls and procedures for self-quarantine and guidance for small businesses and universities varying from state to state, hearing care professionals may find themselves thrust into new situations. Some are being asked to adopt telepractice for the foreseeable future, and others are quickly switching to virtual-only learning for their audiology students.
ASHA is constantly monitoring the situation as it evolves daily. For more informa...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 31, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Slider audiologist COVID-19 Telepractice Source Type: blogs
Banned From Work
This week has started off oddly. I am at home. I am not on vacation. I wish I were. Instead, I am at home in a sort of self-quarantine.
Last week, as I was getting ready to go to work I noticed that I was coughing. Initially I thought that I was had a tickle in my throat and that I just needed to clear it. But the cough persisted.
At our institution our outpatient faculty clinics had already instituted a strict screening policy. All visitors to the building were funneled to the main entrance. There, two people screen any person entering regardless of whether they are visitor or employee.
The questions each day ...
Source: JeffreyMD.com - March 31, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dr. Jeff Tags: After Residency My Life covid19 doctor nationaldoctorday pandemic physician work Source Type: blogs
Banned From Work
This week has started off oddly. I am at home. I am not on vacation. I wish I were. Instead, I am at home in a sort of self-quarantine.
Last week, as I was getting ready to go to work I noticed that I was coughing. Initially I thought that I was had a tickle in my throat and that I just needed to clear it. But the cough persisted.
At our institution our outpatient faculty clinics had already instituted a strict screening policy. All visitors to the building were funneled to the main entrance. There, two people screen any person entering regardless of whether they are visitor or employee.
The questions each day ...
Source: JeffreyMD.com - March 31, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Dr. Jeff Tags: After Residency My Life covid19 doctor nationaldoctorday pandemic physician work Source Type: blogs
