COVID-19: Convalescent Plasma

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Rajendran et al (poor quality systematic review)
Shen et al
Zhang et al
Ye et al
Ahn et al
Duan et al
Biegel et al (influenza A RCT)

COVID-19: Antibody Testing

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Zhao J, Yuan Q, Wang H, et al. Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients of novel coronavirus disease 2019. Clin Infect Dis. 2020;
IDSA COVID-19 antibody primer
IDSA COVID-19 antibody primer
Crook et al. MedRxiv pre-print

COVID-19: Excess Mortality and Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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Baldi et al. NEJM April 2020 doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2010418

COVID-19: Cutaneous Manifestations and “COVID toes”

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Recalcati – general overview of 18 cases of cutaneous manifestations in COVID-19
Manalo – Describes a case of transient livedo reticularis
Fernandez-Nieto 
Piccolo et al
Duong et al
Alrantham, Aldaraji
Recalcati et al
Kolivras et al
Zhang et al.
Zhang et al

COVID-19: Autopsy Studies & Venous Thromboembolism

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Carsana et al 
Dolhnikoff et al
Barton et al
Fox et al
Obi et al

COVID-19: Self proning oxygenation

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Caputo, Strayer, Levitan Academic Emergency Medicine 2020 (in press)

COVID-19: The Paradigm Shift From Early Intubation

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We are joined by Dr. Rory Spiegel (@EMNerd_) who blogs at EMcrit and discuss why many places have switched from an “intubate early” paradigm in COVID-19 to a “try not to intubate” protocol.

Example of respiratory protocols we discuss (collection at REBEL EM)

More discussion on this article here
Wang et al. The experience of high-flow nasal cannula
in hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in two hospitals of Chongqing, ChinaAnn Intensive Care. 2020 10(37)
We discuss several articles including:
Sun et al. Ann. Lower mortality of COVID-19 by early recognition and intervention: experience from Jiangsu Province. Intensive Care (2020) 10:33
Ding et al. Efficacy and safety of early prone positioning combined with HFNC or NIV in moderate to severe ARDS: a multi-center prospective cohort study. Critical Care. 24(28). 2020
Scaravilli V, Grasselli G, Castagna L, et al. Prone positioning improves oxygenation in spontaneously breathing nonintubated patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure: A retrospective study. J Crit Care 2015;30(6):1390–4.
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COVID-19: Thrombosis (VTE guidelines & MI)

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This post builds on our prior podcast episode that was a more in-depth review of hypercoagulability in COVID-19.

JACC COVID-19 guidelines
Bangalore. NEJM. 2020. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2009020

COVID-19: Special Populations

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MMWR . 2020 Weekly. CDC. 69(15);477–481. April 17, 2020. 
Yancy Clyde W. JAMA. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6548
Baggett T et al. MedRxiv Pre-print. 10.1101/2020.04.12.20059618

COVID-19: Testing Issues + Hydroxychloroquine Update

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Sutton et al. Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery. NEJM. April 13, 2020.
Wee LE, Fua TP, Chua YY, et al. Containing COVID-19 in the emergency room: the role of improved case detection and segregation of suspect cases. Acad Emerg Med. 2020; In press. 
Mahevas et al. MedRxiv Pre-print. doi: 10.1101/2020.04.10.20060699

More uncontrolled hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin data from Raoult et al. Abstract and table. [not yet formally published]