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COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America ’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. had its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Three people in the area had tested positive the day before; two of them were associated with Life Care Center of Kirkland, and officials expected more to follow soon. When asked what steps the nursing home could take to control the spread, Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King County, said he was working w...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized Aging COVID-19 feature franchise Magazine TIME for Health Source Type: news

Care of the TIA patient
I read with interest Al-Khaled et al. study on the prognostic impact of the stroke unit (SU) concept in patients presenting after a transient ischemic attack (TIA). They found no significant impact of SU care as compared to conventional care (CU) in TIA patients. Their study raises some interesting observations. The conventional teaching is that patients with TIA warrant emergent evaluation to identify and modify their stroke risk factors. This involves timely evaluation of the patients by a neurologist with expertise in stroke neurology followed by necessary neuroimaging, vascular, hematological and coagulation studies. T...
Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - August 29, 2013 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Nitin K. Sethi Tags: Letters to editor Source Type: research