Join SHM members from across the nation as we navigate COVID-19 via biweekly virtual forums:
Complications of COVID-19: Coagulopathy Related Thrombotic Complications
December 14, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. EDT
COVID-related coagulopathy, definitions and mechanisms including interpretation of d-dimers and when you should investigate for VTE
- The risk of VTE with COVID, addressing rates with non-ICU and ICU COVID
- Strategies for VTE prevention in the hospital as well as post-hospital VTE prevention strategies
- Treatment of acute VTE in COVID, including diagnostic strategies, role for empiric treatment, and duration of treatment
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Non-critical Care Management
September 28, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. EDT
- Evidence behind therapies – dexamethasone, remdesivir and other treatments
- VTE prophylaxis given high risk
- Antibiotic use
- Convalescent Plasma
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Critical Care Management
November 5, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. EDT
- Oxygen therapy
- Ventilator management – timing, strategies and extubation
- Proning and positioning
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Practice Management Around COVID-19
Date and time coming soon.
- Inpatient structure and volume management (command center), logistics – visitation rules and hospital medicine support
- PPE stewardship
- Staffing challenges and management
- Dealing with exposure in health care workers and occ health guidance
- Crisis management – COVID specific
Diagnostic Pearls
Date and time coming soon.
- Sensitivity and specificity of testing
- Symptomatic versus asymptomatic testing
- Antibodies for testing – future
Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of COVID-19
Date and time coming soon.
- Understanding need for precautions
- Interpreting rising numbers in the setting of rising testing
- Strengths and weaknesses of screening vs. contact tracing
- Understanding of complications