Articles: coronavirus.
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To describe the preparedness for, epidemiological characteristics of and public health responses to the first and second waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in six remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland from late 2021. ⋯ It is likely that the co-designed, collaborative partnerships between local councils, community-controlled health services, state health services and public health units positively impacted the management and outcomes of COVID-19 in each of the six communities.
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The National Guard (NG) was an important component of the U.S. emergency response for the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Understanding how the personal COVID-19 experiences of NG members may be associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and disorder (PTSD) can inform approaches to identifying and sustaining service members' mental health. ⋯ Personal COVID-19 experiences are associated with increased PTSS and PTSD risk in NG service members. Such knowledge may aid in selection of service members for activation and identifying those in need of care.
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According to reports, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with various complications, including hematological abnormalities. Lymphopenia and thrombocytopenia have been recognized as common hematological abnormalities. Moreover, some reports have shown cases of neutropenia occurring during or after infection with SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). ⋯ This will allow for effective therapeutic intervention and appropriate disease management in challenging conditions. In this study, our aim was to conduct a comprehensive review of the current literature on neutropenia during or after SARS-CoV2 infection. Furthermore, we assessed whether there have been any documented cases of immune-mediated neutropenia following COVID-19 and if the appropriate laboratory investigations have been carried out in these patients.
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Curr Opin Crit Care · Oct 2024
ReviewImplications of frailty before and after intensive care unit admission.
In the decade since the first publications related to frailty in those with critical illness, the study of frailty has rapidly increased. The purpose of this review is to update the reader on recent advances across several important areas of frailty research: how best to identify frailty in those with critical illness, studies describing the relationship between frailty and delirium, and how frailty affects outcomes for those with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which, despite rates and severity of acute infection declining, still tremendously impacts patients long after the acute infection, resulting in symptoms of long COVID-19. ⋯ Frailty in those with critical illness is an emerging field of study. Future work to define the optimal means by which to identify this syndrome and how best to manage critically ill patients with frailty are needed.