Articles Tagged With: mortality
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Long-Term Effects of Cholinesterase Inhibitors on Cognitive Decline and Mortality
Cholinesterase inhibitors are one of the few drug classes approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. This study shows a long-term benefit in slowing the decline of cognition, as measured by the Mini-Mental State Exam, but it is unclear if there is any benefit in quality of life.
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Vitamin D and COVID-19
Low levels of vitamin D are associated with in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19, but causality is unknown.
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STEMI in Post-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Patients
This large series of post-transcatheter aortic valve replacement patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction demonstrates elevated rates of percutaneous coronary intervention failure and high short- and intermediate-term mortality rates.
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Another Way Antibiotic Therapy Can Kill You
An analysis revealed fluoroquinolone antibiotic use was associated with later aortic diseases and mortality in patients without known aortic disease.
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Rapid Mortality Reviews Improve Quality and Patient Safety
Staff at a California hospital found rapid mortality reviews conducted soon after a patient death resulted in the treatment team identifying opportunities to improve the patient’s care in more than 40% of the cases.
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COVID-19 Patients Can Be Managed Safely with Noninvasive Respiratory Techniques
In adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19 for one month, using a noninvasive respiratory protocol that encouraged high-flow nasal cannula, noninvasive mechanical ventilation, and self-proning did not result in any significant increase in mortality.
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Pregnant Women at High Risk of COVID-19 Mortality
Case-fatality rates in pregnant patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 were 13.6 times higher than similarly aged non-pregnant women with COVID-19, according to a preprint study in Washington state.
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Excess Deaths During COVID-19
Compared with death data for the same weeks from prior years, nearly 300,000 excess deaths occurred in the United States between the weeks ending Jan. 26 through Oct. 3, 2020. Two-thirds were attributed to COVID-19.
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Prior Metformin Use in Patients with Diabetes Hospitalized for COVID-19
Investigators found metformin use before COVID-19 hospitalization for patients with diabetes was associated with a lower risk of death.
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In the Setting of Non-COVID ARDS, Improvement in Oxygenation with Proning Predicts Survival
In this retrospective cohort study, improvement in the PaO2/FiO2 (P/F) ratio by 54% was the optimal cutoff to predict those more likely to be alive at 28 days.