• COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Testing and Social Distancing

    Prof. Mamas A. Mamas is a structural interventional cardiologist, treating patients with underlying coronary artery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in both the elective and emergency setting and undertaking Transcatheter Aortic Valve Interventions (TAVI). He is also the Associate Editor of Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions and...

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  • Imperatives for Rebuilding European Healthcare Systems Post-COVID-19

    How European healthcare systems can rebuild in the post-COVID-19 era. The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the very foundation on which the European healthcare system is based. So many revelations, so many regrets. To bring this into perspective, let us look at some hard numbers. At the time of writing this article, the novel coronavirus had infected...

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  • Smart Hospital for the Future

    Summary: Tan Tock Seng Hospital, a large multi-disciplinary public hospital in Singapore enters into the future of Hospital Operations with Command, Control & Communications (C3) capabilities at its new Integrated Operations Command Centre. On 22 Jan 2020, Singapore raised its Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON)...

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  • COVID-19: PENTAX Medical Talks Supporting Improved Patient Outcomes

    How is COVID-19 affecting patient management? Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, critical care units are overloaded with patients who require urgent and successful guided intubation for treatment and airway management. The more patients with COVID-19 there are, the greater is the need for treatment and continued patient management....

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  • Imaging AI for Chest CT to Aid in Resource Allocation During COVID-19

    Evaluating the severity of pulmonary disease burden can help predict patient outcome in COVID-19 (Colombi et al. 2020; Revel et al. 2020). Quantifying lung pathology is, therefore, a crucial element in the resource and capacity management optimization of healthcare systems. The need to make a more objective decision on whether or not to send a patient...

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  • Grading COVID-19 Severity with CT: CAD and AI

    Summary: A radiologist working with COVID-19 patients in Russia looks at how technology has aided imaging-based diagnosis and what this could mean for future practice in grading disease severity. The pandemic of COVID-19 has presented an unprecedented challenge to modern global healthcare. Today everybody understands that diagnostic imaging...

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  • Global COVID-19 Pandemic - Compelling Effects on Cardiovascular Medicine

    Summary: Quarantining and public interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns about a decrease in presentations for urgent and life-threatening cardiovascular diseases. Cardiovascular disease may remain undiagnosed for a longer duration. How can this be addressed? Introduction All members of the coronaviruses (CoV)...

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  • Filling the Gaps: Learning From Each Other During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Summary: The COVID-19 crisis has created many challenges for health systems around the world. Health leaders have to focus on sustaining their organisations at all levels, and the International Hospital Federation is offering its support to them through a number of projects. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic reminds us of how we are all interconnected....

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  • Oxygen – A Vital Need for the Fight Against COVID-19

    The serious health crisis in France, Italy, Spain and so many other countries highlights the crucial importance of access to medical oxygen for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Hospitals are faced with the need for increasing supplies of oxygen necessary for the survival of patients. The oxygen delivered to them is produced in factories...

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  • Virtual Consultations: Now or Never

    Summary: The use of virtual consultation and telemedicine is expanding rapidly due to the coronavirus crisis. Patients want to avoid hospitals and the health system prefers to keep non-infected patients away from hospitals to reduce congestion. Oliver Wyman consulting ensures that more than 50% of medical appointments worldwide have been provided...

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