According to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. In 2020, approximately 53,200 Americans are expected to die from colorectal cancer. The good news is that several colorectal cancer…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Though men and women are equally as likely to contract COVID-19, men are far more likely to die from it, according to a study published in Frontiers of Public Health.
Nearly 2,600 COVID-19 patients in the U.S. have been treated using the blood plasma of individuals who recovered from the disease, and the treatment has not signaled any major safety issues, experts told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 do not have worse outcomes than other women with the disease, according to a study published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 at a New York City hospital had higher early death rates than other coronavirus patients, new research shows.
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Pulse oximeters — common medical devices that can be purchased at most pharmacies — could help identify patients with COVID-19 pneumonia sooner, treat them more effectively and keep them off ventilators, Richard Levitan, MD, wrote in an opinion piece published…
About 12 percent of COVID-19 patients in New York received invasive mechanical ventilation, and most of them died, a new large study shows.
Adopting a new playbook for deciding when to ventilate COVID-19 patients and using ventilators for these patients less often could help reduce the death rate among coronavirus patients on ventilators, a new review suggests.
About 33 percent of COVID-19 patients admitted to two New York City hospitals experienced respiratory failure leading to invasive mechanical ventilation, a new study shows.
Though health organizations were warning those with asthma that they may be at a higher risk for developing severe COVID-19, early data from New York shows that asthmatics only make up about 5 percent of coronavirus-related deaths in the state,…