2019(COVID-19)pandemic,tremendous efforts have been made in countries to suppress epidemic peaks and strengthen hospital services to avoid hospital strain and ultimately reduce the risk of death from COVID-19.However,there is limited empirical evidence that hospital strain increases COVID-19 deaths....
COVID-19 has placed a huge strain on the resources of the country's hospitals. That is especially true of Roseland Community Hospital, a small but vital safety-net hospital on Chicago's South Side. CGTN was allowed exclusive access to the hospital that was already facing a...
Demand for negative pressure isolation wards made specially to contain the spread of contagious air-borne diseases have soared in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The design team at Huo Yan Air Lab are known for their inflatable COVID-19 testing lab. It has processed on...
Before COVID-19, health care workers at LAC+USC didn't typically use intubation boxes, says Stephen Scott, facilities administrator at the hospital. They would typically wear masks and face shields for these procedures, but the virulence and lethality of the coronavirus call for the use of intu...
Among 259,727 hospitalised COVID-19 cases, 51,948 (20.0%) experienced mortality in hospital. Hospitalised fatality risk ranged from 40.3% (95% confidence interval 39.4–41.3%) in March 2020 to 8.1% (7.2–9.0%) in June 2021. Older individuals and those with multiple co-morbidities were more...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 has reached a pandemic record high in Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday as he ordered additional members of the state National Guard into hospitals to help with the surge. The
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Findings from a national registry reinforce the role racial health disparities play in COVID-19 outcomes but also highlight the contribution hospitals make to the variation in poor outcomes. ...
The Philippines has the highest cumulative COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Western-Pacific. To explore the broader health impacts of the pandemic, we assessed the magnitude and duration of changes in hospital admissions for 12 high-burden diseases and the utilization of five common procedures by...
2022. The southern branch of Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was notified to be a designated hospital and started to receive and treat patients from April 7, mainly treating children, hemodialysis patients, pregnant women and adult COVID-19 patients wit...
COVID-19anxietyhospital staffBackground During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospital staff have experienced a variety of mental health challenges. European research on anxiety and stress among hospital workers during the pandemic is limited. This study aimed to describe the anxiety levels of Finnish ...