Category: Article Summaries

I stop writing about COVID on the regular and now Omicron is here to terrorize us. Dan Ilges, David J Ritchie, Tamara Krekel, Elizabeth A Neuner, Nicholas Hampton, Marin H Kollef, Scott Micek, Assessment of Antibiotic De-escalation by Spectrum Score in Patients With Nosocomial Pneumonia: A Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume

Look, I know I have been absent but I have really good reason for that. No COVID-related articles today. Mark Beldman, Claudia Löwik, Alex Soriano, Laila Albiach, Wierd P Zijlstra, Bas A S Knobben, Paul Jutte, Ricardo Sousa, André Carvalho, Karan Goswami, Javad Parvizi, Katherine A Belden, Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker, If, When, and How to Use

It’s been quite a while since I’ve actually written any post and I have quite a bit of Articles to talk about this time around.  blame it  on moving and a new job.  Connors JM, Brooks MM, Sciurba FC, Krishnan JA, Bledsoe JR, Kindzelski A, Baucom AL, Kirwan BA, Eng H, Martin D, Zaharris E,

Ah, its been quite some time. There are some posts (hopefully) coming soon. Anywho, lets get on to some articles: Levin EG, Lustig Y, Cohen C, Fluss R, Indenbaum V, Amit S, Doolman R, Asraf K, Mendelson E, Ziv A, Rubin C, Freedman L, Kreiss Y, Regev-Yochay G. Waning Immune Humoral Response to BNT162b2 Covid-19

Liao X, Wang Y, He Z, et al. Three-month pulmonary function and radiological outcomes in COVID-19 survivors: a longitudinal patient cohort study. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020;ofaa540. Published 2020 Nov 14. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa540 How does pulmonary function fare following COVID infection? This retrospective study 172 patients who were hospitalized with COVID and evaluated both CT and

ATTACC Investigators; ACTIV-4a Investigators; REMAP-CAP Investigators, Lawler PR, Goligher EC, Berger JS, et al. Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 26;385(9):790-802. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2105911. Epub 2021 Aug 4. PMID: 34351721; PMCID: PMC8362594. A pair of articles on anticoagulation. The first one is on non-critically ill patients

Lopez Bernal J, Andrews N, Gower C, Gallagher E, Simmons R, Thelwall S, Stowe J, Tessier E, Groves N, Dabrera G, Myers R, Campbell CNJ, Amirthalingam G, Edmunds M, Zambon M, Brown KE, Hopkins S, Chand M, Ramsay M. Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant. N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 12;385(7):585-594.

Not as many articles this week to go over, but nevertheless some interesting ones. REMAP-CAP Investigators; ACTIV-4a Investigators; ATTACC Investigators. Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 4. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2103417. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34351722. More on anticoagulation and COVID. This was an international, multiplatform,

Tons on COVID and a few interesting HIV articles. Vafa Bayat, Russell Ryono, Steven Phelps, Eugene Geis, Farshid Sedghi, Payam Etminani, Mark Holodniy, Reduced Mortality With Ondansetron Use in SARS-CoV-2-Infected Inpatients, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2021, ofab336, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab336 Does zofran help with COVID-19 mortality? Maybe. This was a retrospective cohort

Zachary A Yetmar, Supavit Chesdachai, Tarek Kashour, Muhammad Riaz, Danielle J Gerberi, Andrew D Badley, Elie F Berbari, Imad M Tleyjeh, Prior Statin Use and Risk of Mortality and Severe Disease From Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2021, ofab284, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab284 This was a