New York, Feb 27 (Ians) Researchers, including an Indian-origin, have developed two novel calculators for predicting which patients admitted to the hospital with Covid-19 are at greatest risk of requiring mechanical ventilation or in-hospital death.
The findings, published in the journal EClinicalMedicine, indicates that these models could enable clinicians to better stratify risk in Covid-infected patients to optimize care and resource utilization in hospitals faced with ICU capacity constraints.
"Using a combination of past medical history, vital signs, and laboratory results at the time of patient admission, we developed models that can differentiate between risk for mechanical ventilation and risk for in-hospital mortality," said researcher Rajeev Malhotra from Massachusetts General Hospital (Mgh).
"While other studies have focused on 30-day hospital outcomes, we followed all Covid-19 patients to the end of their hospital course since a significant number are hospitalized well beyond 30 days," Malhotra added.
For the study, the team compiled this...
The findings, published in the journal EClinicalMedicine, indicates that these models could enable clinicians to better stratify risk in Covid-infected patients to optimize care and resource utilization in hospitals faced with ICU capacity constraints.
"Using a combination of past medical history, vital signs, and laboratory results at the time of patient admission, we developed models that can differentiate between risk for mechanical ventilation and risk for in-hospital mortality," said researcher Rajeev Malhotra from Massachusetts General Hospital (Mgh).
"While other studies have focused on 30-day hospital outcomes, we followed all Covid-19 patients to the end of their hospital course since a significant number are hospitalized well beyond 30 days," Malhotra added.
For the study, the team compiled this...
- 2/27/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Mumbai, March 22: Pooja Bhatt was left aghast Saturday morning. A woman knocked at her door for a meeting fixed by a "casting agent", who the actress-filmmaker conjectures is "masquerading" as her on online social networking platform to exploit young Bollywood aspirants.
"A young lady and Bollywood hopeful arrived at my house at 5.30 a.m. saying a certain Rajeev Malhotra, who claims to be my casting agent, sent her. She went on to insist she also 'spoke to me' on Fb (Facebook) and I confirmed the same.
"This is dangerous as obviously, someone is masquerading as me on Fb," Pooja, daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt,.
"A young lady and Bollywood hopeful arrived at my house at 5.30 a.m. saying a certain Rajeev Malhotra, who claims to be my casting agent, sent her. She went on to insist she also 'spoke to me' on Fb (Facebook) and I confirmed the same.
"This is dangerous as obviously, someone is masquerading as me on Fb," Pooja, daughter of acclaimed filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt,.
- 3/22/2014
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
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