In March 2020, a team from Jiangsu Province, China detailed their experience in lowering COVID-19 mortality rate in an Annals of Intensive Care letter to the editor.1 Sun and colleagues lay out that Jiangsu Province [...]
With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading, medical organizations are steadily releasing recommendations to healthcare workers. Here is a quick overview of the current guidance for management of acute respiratory failure (ARF) in COVID-19 patients. Although high [...]
With the COVID-19 pandemic underway, clinicians have been raising concerns about aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) in the course of patient treatment. Because the disease spreads via droplets1, AGPs could expose healthcare workers to a greater [...]
Looking for this report as a PDF? Download the COVID-19 Transmission Assessment Report High Velocity Nasal Insufflation (HVNI) Therapy Application in Management of COVID-19 Leonard, S. BSME1, Volakis, L.I., MS PhD1, DeBellis, R., PharmD FCCP1, [...]
All respiratory support modalities generate aerosol. However, not all of them present the same risk of nosocomial transmission. This is often reflected in guidelines from healthcare institutions. For example, the Society of Critical Care Medicine [...]
In March, 2020 Leonard and colleagues released a Transmission Assessment Report on High Velocity Nasal Insufflation (HVNI) Therapy Application in Management of COVID-19. The report includes a literature review as well as the results of [...]
With COVID-19 spreading across the globe, healthcare providers on the front lines have to select the tools that will offer them and their patients the support they need. For clinicians that are considering using Vapotherm [...]
By Jeanne Pettinichi, MSN, RN, CPN, CPEN Vapotherm Clinical Nurse Educator Jeanne Pettinichi has 34 years’ experience as a nurse, including 10 years experience as a Clinical Nurse Education Specialist at two Level I [...]
If you work with respiratory distress patients, you’ve probably heard jokes about the frequent use of albuterol. It’s a very common go-to medication, but it’s no laughing matter if it’s used when not recommended—as is [...]
Given the flu season is in full swing you are likely seeing patients coming in with respiratory distress that stems from exacerbations of underlying conditions, like COPD.1 Chances are you are using noninvasive positive pressure [...]
