Acute Care
Actions included reducing operating room volume by 80% to ensure adequate capacity to care for an anticipated influx of coronavirus patients.
After so many hours wearing this form of personal protective equipment, skin can tear, increasing the likelihood of infection.
The guidance is meant to empower local hospitals and healthcare systems to rapidly expand their capacity to treat coronavirus patients.
The challenge of population health is the ability to integrate and share the data for health systems to act upon the information.
While new technologies are being deployed, health systems can use existing resources to help combat the coronavirus's spread.
Creative thinking will be needed to carve out the necessary critical care capacity to address the surge in COVID-19 patients.
Forgoing these medications would increase health risks for millions of patients with hypertension and congestive heart failure.
The message is clear: Nurses and physicians should treat asymptomatic patients as carefully as symptomatic patients.
Microscopic changes in the transmission rate trigger macroscopic jumps in the expected epidemic size, research found.
The COVID-19 virus may be at least as transmissible as SARS; WHO officials cautioned it's too early to tell if the spread will keep slowing.