Category: Coronavirus
Why infection control failures might kill your patients and colleagues. St Emlyn’s
This blog is based upon a short lecture given by Simon Mardel OBE (1,2). He is an emergency physician who has extensive experience in humanitarian work. He has worked in many infectious disease outbreaks around …
VTE and COVID-19: Would you like to know more?
That’s a leading question. Of course you would. Who wouldn’t want to know more about a disease that has killed >1 million people to date, worldwide. Who wouldn’t want to know more about the thromboembolic risk associated …
JC: Hydroxychloroquine in the the treatment of hospitalised COVID19 patients.
We previously covered the RECOVERY trial press release on the use of HCQ for hospitalised patients with COVID19. This is a UK based platform trial (more on this later) looking at patients admitted to hospital …
JC: ISARIC. Possibly The Best COVID-19 Risk Prediction Tool To Date
Has your department been relying on clinical gestalt to risk stratify patients, perhaps using something you heard or read about in a short paper (perhaps Twitter), maybe something like post-exertional oxygenation has caught your eye, …
The ‘Roid’ to Recovery? REMAP-CAP @ St Emlyn’s
This week JAMA published three important trials on the use of steroids in patients with severe COVID-19, with an additional cherry on top; a subsequent inclusive meta-analysis (totalling 7 RCTs and 1703 patients) from the …
Covid-19 Journal Club: The Director’s Cut #6
The Emergency Medicine Academic Group based out of Leicester have given us another fantastic directors cut. Check out their work here! Professor Tim Coates and Dr Mohammed Elwan have searched every COVID-19 publication, and summarised …
JC: Does post exposure prophylaxis (with HCQ) work in Covid-19?
The utility of hydroxychloroquine in the management of Covid-19 often seems to be more of a political than a medical debate. Many politicians, journalists, hacks, and a whole range of social media experts have an …
Covid-19 in Italy with Roberto Cosentini part 2. St Emlyn’s
Ed – Back at the beginning of the pandemic we had a fantastic contribution from our friend and colleague Roberto Cosentini on the Bergamo experience of dealing with this terrible disease. It turned out to …
Dexamethasone, COVID-19 and the RECOVERY trial. St Emlyn’s
We have previously covered the RECOVERY trial on St Emlyn’s noting that the first results out of this large pragmatic, adaptive design platform RCT showed no benefit to Hydroxychloroquine. A few weeks ago a press …
COVID-19 Journal Club: The Director’s Cut #5
We have searched every COVID-19 publication, and summarised the literature of everything published in the last week. We have highlighted those papers that will be of interest to EM clinicians on the front line. This …