Halting the rapid clinical deterioration, marked by arterial hypoxemia, is among the greatest challenges clinicians face when treating COVID-19 patients in hospitals. While it is clear that oxygen measures and treatment procedures describe a patient's clinical condition at a given time point, the potential predictive strength of the duration and extent of oxygen supplementation methods over the entire course of hospitalization for a patient death from COVID-19 has yet to be assessed. In this study, we aim to develop a prediction model for COVID-19 mortality in hospitals by utilizing data on oxygen supplementation modalities of patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The newly reLeased guidelines of infectious disease societies suggest abstaining from performing routine chest radiographs in the diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia in clinically stable children, based upon studies where the measured outcome is time to resolution of the disease not antibiotic use. However, the impact of possible over-treatment with antibiotics that might result from this clinical approach is not discussed.
Objectives: The goal of this study was to quantify how many children with clinicaL signs suggestive of pneumonia would have been given unnecessary antibiotic treatment had the chest radiograph not been performed.
Background: Endometriosis is a disease that affects women, mostly in the age range of 25-35 years, and in most cases pelvic organs are involved. Involvement of the diaphragm after hysterectomy is extremely uncommon.
Case: A 50-year-old woman presented to our department with right upper-quadrant abdominal pain.