Death

Patients on dialysis are at a significantly heightened risk of death for 30 days after being exposed to a hurricane, according to data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

High-dose erythropoietin failed to lower the risk for death among newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, according to study findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Among patients with African ancestry, those with sickle cell trait are at a higher risk for COVID-19–related death, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Paxlovid lowered the risk for severe COVID-19 or death by 46% in a study of patients in Israel and was especially effective among older or immunosuppressed patients, or patients with underlying neurological or cardiovascular diseases.

LISBON, Portugal — The risk for death from COVID-19 is three to four times higher than it is from influenza among hospitalized patients requiring oxygen therapy, researchers found.

Childhood parental death is associated with poorer school performance, and those who experience this loss may benefit from support that could prevent future adverse outcomes, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

For patients receiving maintenance dialysis, longer CPR duration correlated with unsuccessful CPR and death during the same hospital stay, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Adults with chronic kidney disease who consider EDs or urgent care a usual source of care showed an increased risk for death and hospitalization, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

An early 3-day course of remdesivir lowered the risk for hospitalization or death among nonhospitalized patients at high risk for severe COVID-19 by 87%, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Patients with chronic kidney disease are not at an increased risk for AKI or death after chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.