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Telehealth visits accounted for approximately 30% of total outpatient visits early in the COVID-19 pandemic, with uptake varying among specialties and by patient characteristics, according to research published in Health Affairs.

Anaphylaxis is often underdiagnosed and undertreated in children, but researchers at a busy tertiary care pediatric ED in Canada said they identified factors that predicted whether patients received epinephrine.

Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic children were less likely to undergo radiography, CT, ultrasonography and an MRI during ED visits than non-Hispanic white children, an analysis of more than 13 million ED visits showed.

Rachel Solnick, MD, MSc, is an emergency medicine physician and health services researcher. In this episode, we discuss her journey into public policy, how to navigate misinformation on social media and why doctors should be policy advocates.

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said this week that the government has ordered an additional 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine that he expects will be available by mid-summer.

Men are more likely than women to test positive for COVID-19, and to require ICU admission, mechanical ventilation and in-hospital mortality with the novel coronavirus, according to research published in PLoS One.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the United States implemented measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in labor and delivery units.

While the number of visits to one ED declined overall among children in the early months of the pandemic, the proportion of trauma-related visits increased significantly, researchers reported.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has been implemented by practices nationwide.

Already commercially available in the United Kingdom, the SC+ portable hemodialysis system from Quanta Dialysis Technologies has received 510(k) clearance “setting the stage for [a] U.S. market launch,” according to a press release.