It’s been more than a year since Intermountain Healthcare treated its first COVID-19 patient. During that time, clinicians, physical therapists and physical therapy assistants from across the ...
TOPLINEA “simple” technique known as prone positioning, in which intensive care patients are positioned onto their stomachs, is being advised by experts in the U.K. as a way to lower the chances of ...
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 patients who require oxygen supplementation but who do not undergo intubation may ...
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Prone positioning significantly reduced the need for intubation among nonintubated adults with ...
But there’s another Covid-19 treatment that has become more widespread since the spring, and which experts say could be making a decisive difference. It doesn’t get much attention these days, in part ...
Appearing on "America's Newsroom," Southern Hills Hospital ICU Medical Director Dr. Christopher Voscopoulos explained that the medical center had learned the technique from other physicians in virus ...
Oxygenation improved in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 with severe hypoxemic respiratory failure when they were placed in the prone position, a small study in New York City found. One hour after ...
ORLANDO – The CDC reports that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020 after heart disease and cancer. In the U.S. alone about 600,000 have died from the disease. Researchers say they’ve ...
Medical workers of the ICU ,intensive care unit, ventilate a COVID-19 patient in severe condition by turning the patient into prone position. (Photo by Wang Yuguo/Xinhua via Getty) As COVID-19 case ...
SAN ANTONIO & LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2003--Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI), a global corporation that develops and markets a broad range of technology-based healthcare products, announced ...
SLEEPY HOLLOW, Westchester County (WABC) -- An old technique is giving doctors and coronavirus patients new hope at a hospital in Westchester County. Carlos Alba Garcia, 65, received a well-deserved ...