Dexamethasone vs Methylprednisolone in ICU Patients with COVID19
May 13, 2021
Background Information: Over one year into the pandemic many therapies to treat COVID-19 have targeted innumerable aspects of the virus. Most recently, the use of...
Marco Torres
GLUCOCOVID: A Controlled Trial of Methylprednisolone in COVID-19 Pneumonia
April 5, 2021
Background Information: The use of corticosteroids in patients with pneumonia secondary to COVID-19 has been a controversially hot topic, particularly early on in the pandemic....
COVID-19 Update: The ChAdOx1 (AstraZeneca) COVID-19 Vaccine
December 26, 2020
Background Information: With rising cases, an increasing death toll, and a significant strain on hospital systems globally, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to have no end in...
Can We Predict Which COVID-19 Patients Will Decompensate?
August 6, 2020
Background: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues a number of challenges have arisen. Amongst these is the ability of clinicians to predict which patients will suffer...
COVID-19: Tube Exchange
May 4, 2020
Introduction: Emergency physicians rarely are involved in tube exchanges; I can’t remember the last time I had to do one. However, during the COVID19 surge,...
COVID-19: Neurologic Manifestations
May 3, 2020
The Novel Coronavirus 2019, was first reported on in Wuhan, China in late December 2019. The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international...
COVID-19 NIV: Helmet vs Mask
May 1, 2020
Background: Over the past few weeks there has been a shift in the management of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Many seem to have moved away...
COVID-19: Two More Trials Just Published on Remdesivir
April 30, 2020
Background: Currently, there are no approved medications for the treatment of COVID-19, but, there are many investigational agents that have shown antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2...
COVID-19: Home O2 Protocol
April 29, 2020
Needs Assessment: As the COVID19 pandemic continues to mount, hospitals will rapidly reach maximal capacity. As a result, patients are boarding longer in the ED...
REBEL Cast Ep81: COVID-19, Thrombosis, and Anticoagulation
April 28, 2020
Early reports have shown that COVID-19 is most likely causing a hypercoagulable state, however the prevalence of acute VTE and exactly how to treat it...
COVID-19: Awake Proning
April 26, 2020
Background: Awake proning, or having patients lie on their stomachs, can help oxygenation by helping to recruit posterior portions of the lungs and by helping...
REBEL Cast Ep80: A New War Plan for COVID-19 with Richard Levitan
April 24, 2020
In this episode of REBEL Cast,I sit down with Richard Levitan and talk about some ideas from his experience in New York, where he spent...