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Addressing Post Intensive Care Syndrome – Humanizing the ICU

>> December 5, 2021

Medicine in intensive care units (ICU) has become so technically focused that many doctors believe they’ve lost their connection with the humanity of patients. The result is a high degree of post-ICU PTSD, also known as post intensive care syndrome …

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Medical Notes: Week of June 28, 2020

>> June 28, 2020

Researchers have been looking for an already existing drug to quickly take on Covid-19, and apparently, now they’ve found one. It’s an inexpensive steroid called Dexamethasone, which is already approved for arthritis and asthma. A preliminary study at …

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Medical Notes: Week of June 21, 2020

>> June 21, 2020

Mechanical ventilators have been the go-to intervention for patients critically ill with Covid-19…but the survival rate once on a ventilator has reputedly been only 50 percent or sometimes much worse, according to previous reports. But a study in the journal …

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Rules For Who Lives, Who Dies in the Pandemic

>> April 26, 2020

A lack of ventilators potentially puts doctors in the position of deciding which of their Covid-19 patients get a ventilator and live, and which ones don’t get one and die. New rules for making such decisions have been released which are designed to be fair …

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Medical Notes: Week of April 26, 2020

>> April 26, 2020

A blood test for many types of cancer has been a long-sought goal of researchers… and now they’re much closer. A study in the Annals Of Oncology shows that a blood test looking for cancer DNA can find 50 different kinds of cancer, often before any symptoms …

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ICU PTSD

>> January 24, 2016

A surprisingly high percentage of people who’ve been treated in intensive care units later suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, often including hallucinations recalling horrible ICU incidents. This has led to coining a new syndrome–PICS, or …

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Addressing Post Intensive Care Syndrome – Humanizing the ICU

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