Understanding the ‘symptom-less’ COVID-19 carriers key to stopping spread. Lockdowns will not create enough herd immunity to control and eradicate COVID-19, but the measure is probably our best approach while we wait for a vaccine or faster and more thorough mass testing, according to physicists at the University of Aberdeen. They estimate that in the […]
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The newest cohort of doctors from the University of Aberdeen will graduate early (Friday, April 17) so that many of them can join the frontline and support the NHS and the COVID-19 effort. With guidance from the General Medical Council, the graduation date of final year medical students at the University was brought forward by […]
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“Expanding the use of the Nightingale in London makes perfect sense. The challenge the NHS will face as the peak of the virus is reached will be to restore care and treatment to many patients who have been denied support while the system geared up to cope with this crisis. Responding to the leaked letter […]
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COVID-19: Fire service to assist with antigen testing, transportation of NHS outpatients to appointments or to receive urgent care and with providing instruction to others on non-blue light ambulance driving. Following the unprecedented Agreement reached on 26 March between the Fire Service National Employers, National Fire Chiefs Council and Fire Brigades Union, it has today […]
Webinar on Avoiding Intubation and Initial Ventilation in COVID19. EMCrit explore an obsession with Critical Care and Resuscitation. Editor in Chief: Scott Weingart […]
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Physiology experts respond to questions from coronavirus frontline on new forum. Frontline clinicians treating coronavirus patients can now gain access to up-to-the-minute advice from human physiology experts thanks to a new initiative hosted by The Physiological Society. ‘Questions from the frontline‘ puts some of the world’s best physiologists at easy and immediate distance from frontline […]
A new clinical trial led by the University of Warwick and Queen’s University Belfast seeks to find alternatives to ventilators to treat patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. Researchers will deliver a clinical trial that aims to recruit approximately 4,000 patients in order to find effective alternative solutions for patients with COVID-19 to reduce […]
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Giving CPR during the pandemic – Resuscitation Council UK Statement on COVID-19 in relation to CPR and resuscitation in first aid and community settings. This statement is for anyone who is performing CPR/defibrillation in an out-of-hospital setting. Whenever CPR is carried out, particularly on an unknown victim, there is some risk of cross infection, associated […]
On the 13th April, the WHO made a public statement for collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine development. On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. Chinese authorities identified the SARS-CoV-2 as the causative virus on […]
Labs at the University of Birmingham have been re-purposed to support the testing of frontline NHS staff in the city from this week, supporting University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to upscale their testing capacity during the COVID-19 outbreak. Enabling same-day testing for staff at UHB, the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) and Birmingham Women’s […]