COVID-19

Outside of the loss of human life due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the past two years have greatly affected hospitals, health systems and the way providers deliver care. Healthcare executives are grappling with federal monetary assistance, growing burnout rates, workforce shortages and federal oversight of vaccines and testing. This channel is also designed to update clinicians on new research and guidelines regarding COVID patient treatment strategies and risk assessments.

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How flu vaccines may help limit COVID-19 among CVD patients

Ongoing studies related to seasonal influenza are suddenly getting more attention than before.

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2 new strategies for identifying COVID-19 patients at a higher risk of severe illness or death

The teams behind two new studies explored very different ways to predict severe illness or death among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 

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Outcomes are grim when COVID-19 patients receive CPR for in-hospital cardiac arrest

Researchers explored data from more than 1,300 COVID-19 patients, sharing their findings in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

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Hydroxychloroquine ‘seems to be safe’ for COVID-19 patients, report researchers focused on arrhythmic safety

The authors did emphasize that they were not ruling on the overall “clinical efficacy” of hydroxychloroquine with this research. 

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Radiologists confirm link between COVID-19 and thromboembolism, urge colleagues to ‘raise concern’ when necessary

The latest evidence of COVID-19's cardiovascular impact on patients comes from a new imaging study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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American College of Cardiology comments on use of cardiac imaging to detect COVID-related heart damage

Cardiac MR imaging has shown potential to detect signs of myocarditis in recovered COVID-19 patients. 

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Stroke patients with COVID-19 experience more severe symptoms, a much higher mortality rate

It also takes longer for stroke patients to fully recover when they have COVID-19.

Statin use prior to hospital admission benefits COVID-19 patients

Prior use of ACE inhibitors or ARBs, however, was not associated with the same changes. 

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