Mary Van Beusekom, MS A study involving hospitalized adults today in JAMA Network Open finds that severe COVID-19 negatively affects brain health, but no more so than pneumonia, heart attack, or other critical illnesses. Copenhagen University Hospital researchers in Denmark compared the cognitive, psychiatric, and neurologic test results of 120 COVID-19 patients with those of...
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Assessing symptoms in older adults after critical illness
by Serena Crawford, Yale University Credit: Yale University Older adults who survive a critical illness, such as sepsis or respiratory failure, often have symptoms that restrict activities, but little is known about how these symptoms change over time or compare with those prior to illness, and whether these changes differ among vulnerable subgroups. In a new...
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Clinical Presentation
Updated: Jan 09, 2021 Author: David J Cennimo, MD, FAAP, FACP, AAHIVS; Chief Editor: Michael Stuart Bronze, MD Clinical Progression A retrospective, single-center study from Shanghai evaluated clinical progression of COVID-19 in 249 patients. The interval from symptom onset to hospitalization averaged 4 days (range, 2-7 days) among symptomatic patients. The vast majority (94.3%) of patients developed fever....