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A new survey highlights people's attitudes about coronavirus vaccination and suggests good strategies for healthcare providers to communicate with patients about getting coronavirus vaccines. The Top 3 desired sources of information on coronavirus vaccines were healthcare providers (86% of survey respondents), health insurance company (81%), and pharmacy (79%) 69% of survey respondents said they would get the vaccine when it became available to them • 64% of survey respondents said they wanted reminders for second doses of the vaccine Focusing on what is important to young people such as spending time with older family members is critical." For healthcare providers, the top methods of communication preferred by survey respondents were personal email, phone calls, text messages, postcards, work email, and social media posts.

The principal investigator for the PBMT pilot study, which features 10 patients, says the laser therapy had a significant impact on the first patient to receive the treatment. Until there are randomized controlled trials involving many patients, any new treatment for COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) should be viewed skeptically, says David Kirk, MD, director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and director of eICU Service at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sigman has been using PBMT to treat inflammation and pain associated with acute joint injuries and chronic joint pain for nearly three years, with a success rate of about 78% in improvement of patient pain and inflammation. After consulting with Mokmeil, Sigman was able to determine the laser wavelength dose and duration of the laser treatment for COVID-19 patients with pneumonia or ARDS.

In addition to the high sepsis mortality figure, the research in the Journal of the American Heart Association found five predictors of sepsis mortality: older age, male sex, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, low log serum vitamin D, and high platelet count. Targeting chronic heart failure patients with these predictors could drive down sepsis deaths among CHF patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction. Crucially, the variables most strongly associated with sepsis death showed a distinct profile compared to other noncardiovascular death, progressive heart failure, sudden cardiac death, and all-cause death." "We had not expected such a large proportion of people with heart failure to die of sepsis, but other studies have shown that sepsis is an important cause of hospitalization in people with heart failure," said Cubbon, a senior lecturer in the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine at The University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

Experts weigh in on a new era for one of healthcare's fastest-growing initiatives. The industry of telemedicine is at a tipping point, expanding far beyond interactions between physicians and patients into entirely new ways to deliver healthcare and practice medicine