Articles: pandemics.
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Southern medical journal · Jul 2023
Student Teaching in the Family Medicine Clerkship: Opportunities for Interactive Virtual Learning.
It often is challenging to deliver clerkship didactic sessions in a time-effective and engaging manner for learners. The flipped classroom approach, which fosters independent learning before applying knowledge in group settings, is an evidence-based way to enhance engagement and learning. Electronic learning methodologies were used widely during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic to ensure student safety while continuing didactics remotely. Student teaching of didactics delivers key content in innovative ways while also providing students with the opportunity to teach their peers. ⋯ Student-led teaching is beneficial to learners because it enhances engagement. It can be easily implemented and help reduce faculty burden for curricular development. In a distributed, community-based clinical model such as ours, electronic learning allows for coordinated teaching efforts across geographical boundaries.
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The objective is to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected care for patients undergoing thoracic surgery for cancer. ⋯ Telemedicine enabled cancer care to continue during the COVID-19 pandemic without delays in surgery, cancer progression, or worsened postoperative morbidity and was generally well received.
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Internal medicine journal · Jul 2023
A retrospective review of Immunology patients with primary and/or secondary immunodeficiency, demonstrating the benefits of the rapid transitioning from intravenous immunoglobulin to subcutaneous immunoglobulin at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Forty-four of 50 immunology patients with primary or secondary immunodeficiency receiving intravenous immunoglobulin at a hospital in New South Wales, Australia, were rapidly enrolled in the subcutaneous immunoglobulin (SCIg) programme at the onset of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Health and economic outcomes demonstrated that SCIg provides clinical efficacy as evidenced by the number of infections and maintenance of IgG levels, and also facilitates cost reduction in immunoglobulin maintenance programmes.
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Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg · Jul 2023
Observational StudyHow did COVID-19 affect acute urolithiasis? An inner Anatolian experience.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the number of patients seeking medical help from the emergency service (ES) with non-COVID complaints, consequencing in postponed presentations of different surgical and medical situations. Acute urinary stone disease is one of these situations and needs to be investigated in terms of the effect of COVID-19 on its presentation to the ES. ⋯ The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in neither sicker nor fewer patients suffering from acute ureteric colic in the ES.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Jul 2023
Predictors of disease severity in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a novel coronavirus, manifests as a respiratory illness primarily and symptoms range from asymptomatic to severe respiratory syndrome and even death. During the pandemic, due to overcrowding of medical facilities, clinical assessment to triage patients for home care or in-hospital treatment was an essential element of management. ⋯ None.