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Investigating the prevalence of and predictive and risk factors for pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19 in Nemazee Teaching Hospital
CONCLUSION: Regression analysis revealed that age, blood pressure, heart attack, and albumin levels were independent predictors of PTE.PMID:37431097 | DOI:10.5045/br.2023.2023076
Source: Blood Research - July 11, 2023 Category: Hematology Authors: Mahnaz Yadollahi Hessam Hosseinalipour Muhammad Alinaqi Mehrdad Karajizadeh Mehrdad Jowkar Kazem Jamali Maryam Yadollahi Pooria Fazeli Source Type: research

Late Breaking Abstract - Management of COVID-19 pneumonia in an enhanced respiratory step down unit: a novel approach
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, patients have received escalated care on specialist respiratory wards outside of intensive care units (ICU) in various forms. We performed this study to review the effectiveness of an enhanced respiratory step-down unit (ECU) during the COVID-19 pandemic at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.This was a retrospective observational study of patients admitted to the ECU from ICU between April 2020 and January 2021. Data collected included demographics, treatments given and outcomes.We accepted patients to the ECU following level 2-3 care but still requiring speciali...
Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 25, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Agrawal, V. A., Ravi, A., Prior, A., Proctor, J., Baluwala, A. H. Tags: Respiratory infections and bronchiectasis Source Type: research

Studying the Clinical Data of COVID Positive patients admitted to a tertiary care academic hospital
Conclusion: The most common presenting symptoms included fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Patients who required ICU admission at presentation had a worse prognosis. Those with greater severity of symptoms were mainly elderly patients among which the most common comorbidity was hypertention followed by cardiac disease.
Source: Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock - June 9, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Julio Arrieta Sagar Galwankar Natalia Lattanzio Darrel Ray Amit Agrawal Source Type: research