A new study suggests that many patients with pulmonary embolism who present as hemodynamically stable may be in subclinical shock due to low cardiac index. Moreover, mechanical thrombectomy may confer an immediate improvement in cardiac index for these patients, researchers reported at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress.
Egypt Denied an Oxygen Failure Killed Covid Patients. We Found That It Did.
For many Egyptians, a video offered a rare and uncensored view of the coronavirus’s real toll at the peak of Egypt’s second wave of the pandemic.
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EL HUSSEINEYA, Egypt A cry pierced the night from the balcony of an Egyptian hospital. A nurse was screaming that the patients in the Covid intensive care unit were gasping for air.
Ahmed Nafei, who was standing outside, brushed past a security guard, dashed in and saw that his 62-year-old aunt was dead.
Furious, he whipped out his phone and began filming. It appeared that the hospital had run out of oxygen. Monitors were beeping. A nurse was visibly distressed and cowering in a corner as her colleagues tried to resuscitate a man using a manual ventilator.
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