In an address during the American Urological Association’s 2020 Live Virtual Experience, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said the coronavirus pandemic is nowhere near over, but public health measures are making a big difference in reducing the number of cases and related deaths.
The authors of a recent editorial present a case for considering twice-weekly rather than the standard thrice-week hemodialysis, a shift that can reduce exposure to the COVID-19 coronavirus, conserve personal protective equipment and other benefits.
New studies characterize COVID-19 risk factors and outcomes and chronicle how healthcare providers and facilities are dealing with the pandemic.
The COVID-19 public health crisis could propel telemedicine into a more substantial role in clinical practice.
Urologists have stepped up infection control measures at their clinics and are performing tasks that can free up emergency and critical-care clinicians so they can tend to COVID-19 patients.
Dialysis facilities have stepped up precautions to protect patients with kidney failure from COVID-19, which can cause severe respiratory illness and death.
Gentamicin cream use was associated with fewer exit-site infections due to gram-negative bacteria.
The rate of surgical site infections in both treated and untreated patients was 1.1%.
The pathogen appears to attack cells crucial to the developing fetal brain.
