Clinical
Clinical
Predicting patient risk of medication-related harm
Clinicians can calculate the risk of a patient suffering medication-related harm post-discharge.
News
Myocarditis rare, macrophage infiltration common at COVID autopsy
An autopsy study shows myocarditis is uncommon, seen in only 14% of COVID-19 deaths, but macrophage infiltration is very common and might explain...
News
Liver injury linked to COVID-19–related coagulopathy
Cells that line the liver’s blood vessels produce high levels of factor VIII, a coagulation factor, when they are exposed to interleukin-6, an...
News
One-third of critical illness survivors emerge from ICU with functional deterioration
One-third of patients who survived nonsurgical ICU admission had evidence of functional status decline.
News
COVID-19 burdens follow patients after discharge
Postdischarge COVID-19 patients have high rates of long-term sequelae from sepsis and other severe respiratory viral illnesses.
News
Factor XI inhibitor–based anticoagulation strategies gain ground
“When we compare the FXI inhibitors with existing anticoagulants, we don’t necessarily want to go up against the DOACs.”
News
Metapneumovirus infections clinically indistinguishable from flu, RSV
News
Cardiac arrest in COVID-19 pandemic: ‘Survival is possible’
Results of new studies of in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest underline that, despite lower survival rates during the pandemic, rates are “not...
News
In those with obesity, will losing weight cut COVID-19 severity?
“To think excess weight may also be detrimental to acute effects of a novel virus running amok in the world has focused minds on obesity in a...
News
'Tragic' milestone: 1 million children with COVID-19
“We haven’t seen a virus flash through our communities in this way since before we had vaccines for measles and polio.”