During the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous antiviral agents, immunotherapies, and vaccines continue to be investigated and developed as potential therapies in the fight against COVID-19. Currently, only […]
At some point in their career, every medical practitioner is in the position of delivering bad news. What constitutes bad news is part of the issue: […]
Providing care in today’s high-stress complex health care environment is no easy task. With newly evolving care patterns, more focus on distance interactions, concerns about care […]
On any given day, about 1 in 31 hospital patients in the United States have at least one healthcare-associate infection. These infections lead to tens of […]
Healthcare acquired infections are infections that patients get while receiving treatment for medical or surgical conditions and many are preventable. At any one time in the […]
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a hospital-acquired lung infection that develops 48 hours or longer, in a person who is on a ventilator. The infection is caused by […]
This Week’s Trending Medical Education Topic is Stress Management and Physician Burnout. Stress has been classified as the “Health Epidemic of the 21st Century” by […]
A new coronavirus is causing an outbreak of respiratory illness in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. This outbreak began in early December 2019 and […]