UPDATE 4/29/2020 – COVID-19: Keeping Up With A Moving Target

Dr. Auwaerter updates us on COVID-19 and answers your questions. Topics covered:

  • Infection Rates – New York vs. Los Angeles
  • Remdesivir trial breaking news
  • COVID-19 transmission data
  • Serology testing: Reliable?
  • Children and COVID-19, and more

UPDATE 4/24/2020 – COVID-19: Keeping Up With A Moving Target

In this new series, Sue Hansen, MSN, RN from UW Medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle provides weekly updates for clinicians caring for patients with COVID-19. She shares practical information for treating COVID-19 patients in the ICU and other settings, and offers recommended best practices. In this episode, she discusses proning:

  • Why we prone, physiological benefits
  • When to and not to prone
  • Complications
  • Special COVID-19 considerations, and more

UPDATE 4/22/2020 – COVID-19: Keeping Up With A Moving Target

Dr. Auwaerter updates us on COVID-19 and answers your questions. Topics covered:

  • LA County antibody testing
  • Treatment guidelines from the National Institute of Health
  • NEJM study on two New York City hospitals
  • Data about use of medications for hypertension
  • Update on using plasma to treat patients
  • Reliability of IgM/IgG testing kits
  • And more