Pulmonary Medicine Perspective and Journal Articles

• Why Are We Still Talking About Hydroxychloroquine? Dr Allan Block has had enough of the hydroxychloroquine debate. "While hydroxychloroquine may have its uses for other disorders, at this point COVID-19 doesn't appear to be one of them," he says.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, August 03, 2020
• Is Reopening Worth the Risk to People's Lives During COVID-19?   Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses how to balance health and liberty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, August 03, 2020
• Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema What do we currently know about combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema? Learn more about the features of this condition and explore treatment options.
  Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, August 03, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detected in Blood Donations The identification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the plasma of blood donors highlights the potential need for routine screening.
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 03, 2020
• Clinical Evaluation of Diagnostic Assays for SARS-CoV-2 This study evaluated the clinical performance of three currently available molecular assays for SARS-CoV-2 using nasopharyngeal swabs from symptomatic patients.
  American Journal of Clinical Pathology, August 03, 2020
• Controlling Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Infections What strategies may help reduce the incidence of healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections? Which are most effective?
  Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, August 03, 2020
• Unravelling Gender Differences in Aortic Dissection A new study corroborates prior findings that aortic dissection occurs more often in men than women, but in women, diagnosis may be delayed or missed. How can outcomes in women be improved?
  European Heart Journal, August 03, 2020
• Risk Factors for Pressure Injury in Adult ICU Patients A new study provides insight into the factors that may contribute to the development of pressure injuries among critically ill patients.
  American Journal of Critical Care, August 03, 2020
• Black Doctor Wears Scrubs to Protect Himself   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Arturo Holmes II about why he wears his physician scrubs out in public to guard against discrimination and racism.
  WebMD, July 31, 2020
• Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Visits Emergency department visits were down over 40% during the early COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that the public is delaying emergency care for fear of transmission in the ED.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, July 31, 2020
• Comparison of Ceftriaxone and Ampicillin/Sulbactam for CAP How do these antibiotics for treating non-aspiration community-acquired pneumonia compare? Is one more effective than the other?
  BMC Pulmonary Medicine, July 31, 2020
• A 95-year-old Patient With Unexpected COVID-19 This case report of an initially misdiagnosed patient highlights the potential pitfalls in diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia in very old patients with comorbidities.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, July 30, 2020
• Can Cholesterol Drugs and Antihistamines Fight COVID-19?   WebMD chief medical officer John Whyte talks with biomedical engineer Dr Yaakov (Koby) Nahmias about how SARS-CoV-2 attacks the lungs and what drugs may help combat COVID-19.
  WebMD, July 29, 2020
• What Does the Case Fatality Rate Really Tell Us?   There are two big problems with the case fatality rate metric, says Dr F. Perry Wilson. What we really want to know is the infection fatality rate. What's the difference?
  Medscape, July 29, 2020
• COVID-19: When to Wear a Mask and When You Don't Have To   Dr Art Caplan says there are right times and wrong times to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 27, 2020
• Mortality Among Adults With Both Asthma and COPD Do patients with features of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have worse health outcomes than those with asthma or COPD alone?
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, July 27, 2020
• Underprotected Clinicians: 'We Are Tired of Advocating'   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Esther Choo about the stress and exhaustion that healthcare workers are experiencing during the pandemic, leading to burnout.
  WebMD, July 24, 2020
• What Docs Hate: Every Specialty Has Its Thing A recent lively discussion on Twitter encouraged clinicians in all specialties to note the one thing that most gets their hackles up. Some of them will surprise you.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 24, 2020
• A New Position for Intubation of Obese Females The authors present a modified-ramped position which facilitates ease of endotracheal intubation and improves the laryngeal view in obese female patients.
  BMC Anesthesiology, July 23, 2020
• When to Add Chemo to IO in Lung Cancer? New Data From ASCO 2020   Immunotherapeutic agents are bringing our lung cancer patients closer to cure, says Mark Kris.
  Medscape Oncology, July 22, 2020