Pulmonology
- Hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia: Diagnosis, management, and prevention
Better diagnosis, management, and prevention are needed.
- Management of patients with COVID-19 in the MICU
The main goals are to ensure caregiver safety and provide the highest quality care.
- Managing adult asthma: The 2019 GINA guidelines
All patients should take inhaled corticosteroids daily or as needed.
- Coagulopathy in COVID-19: Manifestations and management
Prophylaxis against venous thromboembolism is recommended for all patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
- Thoracic imaging in COVID-19
Typical findings include bilateral multifocal parenchymal opacities, predominantly in the peripheral and lower zones.
- Pneumonia and alcohol use disorder: Implications for treatment
Patients with alcohol use disorder are at increased risk for Streptococcus pneumoniae but not resistant gram-negative infections.
- Cytokines and the still-baffling clinical biology of COVID-19
The primary culprit is not certain. Is it all immune damage, or is the continued persistence of coronavirus playing a role?
- Clinical presentation and course of COVID-19
Information about the clinical presentation and course of COVID-19 is rapidly evolving.
- Cytokine storm and the prospects for immunotherapy with COVID-19
Despite gaping holes in our knowledge, treatment is evolving.
- COVID-19: Coronavirus replication, pathogenesis, and therapeutic strategies
Understanding the virus and how it causes disease points the way to potential treatments.