Articles: pandemics.
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Recent research underscores the exceptionally young age distribution of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. compared with that of international peers. This paper characterizes how high levels of COVID-19 mortality at midlife ages (45-64 years) are deeply intertwined with continuing racial inequity in COVID-19 mortality. ⋯ This discrepancy between vaccination and mortality patterning by race/ethnicity suggests that if the current period is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, it also remains a pandemic of the disadvantaged in ways that can decouple from vaccination rates. This result implies an urgent need to center health equity in the development of COVID-19 policy measures.
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Comparative Study Observational Study
A prospective observational study comparing outcomes before and after the introduction of an intubation protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Orotracheal intubation is a life-saving procedure commonly performed in the Intensive Care unit and Emergency Department as a part of emergency airway management. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, our center undertook a prospective observational study to characterize emergency intubation performed in the emergency department and critical care settings at Manitoba's largest tertiary hospital. During this study, a natural experiment emerged when a standardized "COVID-Protected Rapid Sequence Intubation Protocol" was implemented in response to the pandemic. The resultant study aimed to answer the question; in adult ED patients undergoing emergent intubation by EM and CCM teams, does the use of a "COVID-Protected Rapid Sequence Intubation Protocol" impact first-pass success or other intubation-related outcomes? ⋯ A "COVID-Protected Protocol" implemented by Emergency Medicine and Critical Care teams in response to the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with increased first-pass success rates and decreases in adverse events.
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This study was designed to examine eating behaviors and their association with fear and depression states concerning COVID-19 among students in Turkey. ⋯ During the pandemic, negative psychological effects resulted in unfavorable dietary behavioral consequences, depending on the increasing levels of stress.
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Southern medical journal · Feb 2023
Retrospective Study of Psychiatric Hospitalizations in a West Texas Mental Health Treatment Facility during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The association between the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and adverse mental health outcomes has been well documented; however, little is known about its impact in rural areas of the United States. This study aims to characterize and compare inpatient psychiatric admissions in West Texas before and during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. ⋯ Rural communities in West Texas experienced a decrease in psychiatric hospitalizations during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by an increase as lockdown restrictions began to lift; this warrants further investigation into healthcare service utilization during the pandemic.
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Feb 2023
[Clinical and procedural characteristics of patients with acute coronary syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 compared to a control group from 2019].
During the COVID-19 pandemic medical treatments including emergencies were often delayed, in part because of fear of an infection with Sars-CoV-2. Even patients with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) were affected by these circumstances. In the present study we provide a systematic comparison of patients with ACS during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to a control group. ⋯ Despite overall comparable numbers of ACS patients those admitted during the COVID-19 pandemic were more frequently diagnosed with NSTEMI and had a larger extent of coronary disease compared to a control group.