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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have avoided emergency room visits, but this isn’t always a bad thing, a new study suggests. The study, published Tuesday (May 25) in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that emergency room (ER) visits for appendicitis and miscarriage dropped markedly during the pandemic, but that didn’t translate into worse […]
Has Covid’s variant-fueled fourth wave begun in Florida? ER visits for coronavirus symptoms are 30% higher in the Sunshine State compared to the rest of the US New CDC data shows that 2.6% of all emergency department visits in Florida are for coronavirus-like illness This figure is 30% higher than the 2% seen for emergency department […]
The rapid upscaling of a telemonitoring program in which health care providers performed daily telemedicine check-ins on COVID-19 patients faced a unique set of challenges. How these were resolved, and early outcomes, are reported in the peer-reviewed journal Telemedicine and e-Health. “Kaiser Permanente’s Virtual Home Care Program (VHCP) was able to rapidly establish a telemedicine-based […]
During in the best of times, co-parenting is complicated. During a pandemic, it’s become a nightmare for many, including one of the people we’re relying on to be a hero in the face of the virus. A judge ruled that an emergency room doctor would temporarily lose custody of her 4-year-old daughter because of the […]
As levels of ozone and fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) rise, more patients end up in the ER with breathing problems, according to the largest U.S. study of air pollution and respiratory emergency room visits of patients of all ages. The study was published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical […]