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The Difficulty Of Counting the COVID-19 Pandemic ’s Full Death Toll
Sara Wittner had seemingly gotten her life back under control. After a December relapse in her battle with drug addiction, the 32-year-old completed a 30-day detox program and started taking a monthly injection to block her cravings for opioids. She was engaged to be married, working for a local health advocacy group in Colorado, and counseling others about drug addiction. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The virus knocked down all the supports she had carefully built around her: no more in-person Narcotics Anonymous meetings, no talks over coffee with trusted friends or her addiction recovery sponsor. As the virus stressed...
Source: TIME: Health - June 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markian Hawryluk / Kaiser Health News Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Increased Prevalence, Complications, and Costs of Smokers Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty
J Knee Surg DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1713128Given a national push toward bundled payment models, the purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence as well as the effect of smoking on early inpatient complications and cost following elective total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in the United States across multiple years. Using the nationwide inpatient sample, all primary elective TKA admissions were identified from 2012 to 2014. Patients were stratified by smoking status through a secondary diagnosis of “tobacco use disorder.” Patient characteristics as well as prevalence, costs, and incidence of complications were compared. ...
Source: Journal of Knee Surgery - June 23, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Rajaee, Sean S. Debbi, Eytan M. Paiement, Guy D. Spitzer, Andrew I. Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Transient Ischemic Attack: The Trend and Readmissions in the United States
: Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a temporary event of neurological dysfunction. Patients with TIA may be discharged from the Emergency Department or following an observational admission since their symptoms have resolved. Some portion of these patients, however, return to the hospital due to various reasons. The aim of our study is to find the trend of TIA readmissions in the United States.
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - July 15, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Jared Alexander Stowers, Tiffany Brown, Lee Albert Birnbaum, Ali Seifi Source Type: research

Impact of rhabdomyolysis on outcomes of hospitalizations for heat stroke in the United States
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Source: Hospital Practice - July 26, 2020 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Charat Thongprayoon Tananchai Petnak Swetha R. Kanduri Karthik Kovvuru Wisit Cheungpasitporn Boonphiphop Boonpheng Api Chewcharat Tarun Bathini Juan Medaura Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula Wisit Kaewput Source Type: research

Neurologic Symptoms Are Very Common Among U.S. Coronavirus Patients, Study Says
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, so too does the disease’s list of known symptoms. At first, cough, fever and shortness of breath were thought to be its primary symptoms. Nine months in, that list now includes organ damage, skin conditions, gastrointestinal problems and issues of the brain and nervous system. A paper published Oct. 5 in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology is thought to be the first to examine the prevalence of neurologic symptoms in U.S. COVID-19 patients. Out of 509 people admitted to Chicago hospitals for coronavirus care this spring, 82% had a neurologic symptom at some point,...
Source: TIME: Health - October 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Scientific Approach to Assess if Change Led to Improvement —Methods for Statistical Process Control Analysis in Quality Improvement
Quality improvement is an expectation in most hospitals and emergency departments throughout the United States. With hospitals requiring reporting on key metrics such as readmission rates, time to thrombolytic administration in stroke, or time to cardiac catheterization laboratory activation for ST-elevation myocardial infarctions, many emergency departments deploy quality improvement teams to monitor and improve these metrics and others to promote quality and safety. Emergency nurses and managers are key members and leaders of these quality improvement teams.
Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - October 23, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Maegan S. Reynolds, Sandra P. Spencer, Ashley Dunaway, Don Buckingham, Thomas Bartman Tags: Understanding Research Source Type: research

Patient Care Falters as COVID-19 Devastates L.A. County (CA) Hospitals
Soumya Karlamangla, Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money Los Angeles Times (MCT) Los Angeles County’s healthcare system was buckling Wednesday under the unprecedented surge of COVID-19 patients, with bodies piling up at morgues and medical professionals resorting to increasingly desperate measures as they brace for conditions to worsen in the coming weeks. With hospitals overwhelmed by patients and no outlet valve available, doctors, nurses and paramedics are being forced to make wrenching choices about who gets care and at what level. “No one would believe this is in the United States,” ...
Source: JEMS Patient Care - December 31, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: Coronavirus News News Feed California EMS Hospital Paramedic Source Type: news

Overdose Receiving Centers - An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Authors: Hern HG, Goldstein D, Tzvieli O, Mercer M, Sporer K, Herring AA Abstract Drug overdose deaths have been the leading cause of accidental death in the United States with two thirds involving opioids. Strong evidence supports the efficacy of medications for addiction treatment such as buprenorphine and harm reduction strategies such as naloxone distribution. While emergency medical service (EMS) systems have defined specialty centers for the treatment of many significant life threatening disease (trauma, stroke, myocardial infarction) implementation of opioid use disorder systems of care that integrate EMS ar...
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - January 30, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research

National hospital discharge survey: 2006 annual summary
This report presents 2006 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of nonfederal short-stay hospitals in the United States. Estimates are provided by selected patient and hospital characteristics, diagnoses, and surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed. Estimates of diagnoses and procedures are presented according to the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes. Methods-The estimates are based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS). The survey has been conducted annually since 1965. In 2006, data were collected for approximately...
Source: Vital Health Statistics Series 13 - October 1, 2014 Category: Statistics Authors: Verita C Buie Maria F Owings Carol J DeFrances Alexander Golosinskiy Source Type: research