Hospital Medicine

COVID-19

Questions discussed in this category

Do you consider the use of tocilizumab in patients with COVID pneumonia who have had an improvement in supplemental O2 requirements but have significantly elevated inflammatory markers after day two of remdesivir and dexamethasone?

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Do you consider use of convalescent plasma early in disease course in COVID-19 induced ARDS in mechanically ventilated patients?

Do the results of the recent study (Misset et al., PMID 37889107) showing reduction in 28-day mortality in patients with high neutralizing antibody ti...

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Do you use steroids in patients with respiratory failure who are infected with both influenza and COVID-19?

How do you approach which risk to accept given that steroids have evidence for use in COVID-19 while is suggestion for harm in using steroids in influ...

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Do you recommend using IL-1/IL-6 inhibitors in COVID-19 multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults (MIS-A)?

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Are you recommending tocilizumab for any COVID-19 patients?

Current guidelines do not support its use, but the EMPACTA trial suggests it may be effective in a subpopulation of patients.

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Would you recommend anticoagulation prophylaxis for a pediatric patient admitted with COVID-19?

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How would you manage a patient with sickle cell disease who is infected with COVID-19?

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Are you covering the tracheostomy site with a surgical mask due to COVID-19 to protect the therapist?

Please see this article for referrence https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167814020301638

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How should you manage a COVID-19 infected/suspected patient who is receiving chemotherapy and cannot interrupt or delay their cancer treatment?

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How should you manage a pediatric oncology patient who has an ANC > 500 and a normal chest x-ray but is confirmed to be infected with COVID-19 and is immunosuppressed from chemotherapy?

Should the patient be admitted for observation which will risk exposing other immunocompromised patients to COVID-19, or should the patient be quarant...

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