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VitalPatch Wins FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Cardiac Monitoring in COVID Patients

May 8th, 2020 Cici Zhou Cardiology, Medicine VitalConnect announced that it has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization status for use of its VitalPatch to detect changes in the QT interval of hospitalized patients undergoing drug treatment for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, used to treat some COVID-19 patients, are associated with risk of prolonged QT interval that… Read More: VitalPatch Wins FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Cardiac Monitoring in… »

Coronavirus: Sickest patients face long recovery

Despite the horrific death toll caused by the coronavirus, many thousands of people have now survived the experience of having Covid-19. The vast majority will have suffered relatively mild symptoms. But those who were very ill and needed admission to intensive care, can face a long recovery. That might mean weeks or months working with… Read More: Coronavirus: Sickest patients face long recovery »

32 Days on a Ventilator: One Covid Patient’s Fight to Breathe Again

HINGHAM, Mass. — “Is he going to make it?” Kim Bello asked, clutching her phone, alone in her yard. She had slipped outside so her three children, playing games in the living room, could be shielded from a wrenching conversation with a doctor treating her husband, Jim. For two weeks, he had been battling the… Read More: 32 Days on a Ventilator: One Covid Patient’s Fight to… »

Livongo Health’s Jenny Schneider on Covid-19 & Helping Patients with Chronic Conditions | WTF Health

COVID-19 Mar 20, 2020• By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “What’s happening in COVID is those of us living with these chronic conditions are at highest risk — not to contract the disease, but highest risk for outcomes. Our unique ability to be able to see what’s happening in that population and deliver that care remotely… Read More: Livongo Health’s Jenny Schneider on Covid-19 & Helping Patients with… »