Monthly Archives: May 2020
“Discover”: Financial toxicity and quality of life
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As an ICU doctor, Geoffrey Fleming cared for dying children. Now facing death himself, he applies what those children taught him
“Sometimes as providers, all we have to do is be brave and ask ourselves, ‘Is this about me, or is this about the patient?'” Continue reading
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Rounding based on acuity helps preserve attention of clinicians
According to a recent multi-center study led by researchers at VUMC, if teams begin rounding with the sickest patient and proceed to others based on decreasing patient acuity, something good happens. Continue reading
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Roots of Resiliency webinars focus on adolescents and coping with COVID-19
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Team uses imaging to study ways the heart is affected by coronavirus
Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators are using imaging and diagnostic pathology to examine postmortem hearts donated by victims of COVID-19. Continue reading
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Protocols, Personal Protective Equipment Utilization and Psychological/Financial Stressors within Endoscopy Units in Mid-Pandemic: A Large Survey of Hospital-based and Ambulatory Endoscopy Centers in the U.S.
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Yield and Implications of Pre-Procedural COVID-19 PCR Testing on Routine Endoscopic Practice
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Both sample number and test positivity threshold determine colonoscopy efficiency in detection of colorectal cancer with quantitative fecal immunochemical tests
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Positive FIT or Cologuard in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic
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Agonist of RORA Attenuates Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Progression in Mice via Upregulation of microRNA 122
Development of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is associated with reductions in hepatic microRNA122 (MIR122); the RAR related orphan receptor A (RORA) promotes expression of MIR122. Increasing expression of RORA in livers of mice increases express… Continue reading
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