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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/31/20
… Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/30/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/29/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/28/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/28/20
… I could continue in that vein by citing projections from any number of public sources that predict we will be … will occupy a fixed number of ICU beds does not convert us from full resuscitation to body-stacking. I would love to … Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/27/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/29/20
… traverse Africa, covering 7,000 miles over 3 years, lasted from 1874 to 1877. The dangers, privations, and assaults by … Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/28/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/27/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/25/20
… swab and transfer medium alternatives. Related resources from our idle basic science labs are on offer immediately if … to study therapeutic uses of convalescent plasma (obtained from patients who are antigen-negative, antibody-positive). … Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/24/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/27/20
… Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/26/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/25/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/24/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/26/20
… New York Times are fanning the flames, nudging us along from ignorance to superstition. Almost 100 years ago (1928) … Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/25/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/24/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/24/20
… Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/23/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/22/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/21/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/20/20
… CUIMC inpatient COVID-19 positive patients have increased from 37 to 59 overnight, ventilator patients from 10 to 12. Projections presented at noon today estimate … Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/19/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/23/20
… Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/22/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/21/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/20/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/22/20
… Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/21/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/20/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/19/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/19/20
… still moving through the OR. The only new systems-alarm is from the blood bank. Mass cancellation of blood drives is … possibility of aerosol transmission has been acknowledged from the beginning of the epidemic. That is why N95 … Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/18/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/17/20
… Stay up to date with us. Dear Colleagues, Some high points from meetings this morning: The virus is spreading rapidly, … the new NY State DOH policy (mask) but diverges somewhat from NYC policy (no mask). This issue is still being … Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/16/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/18/20
… staffing, and PPE). Yesterday, within hours of a request from VP&S, Saleha Ahmed and Larry Beilis delivered a 343-row, … have responded with remarkable speed to the command from CU and VP&S to scale back all research to bare … (they miss the peak of viral shedding). Today I learned from Dr. Roth that only ~25% of the PRA antigen tests done so …
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COVID-19 Update from Dr. Smith: 3/21/20
… Surgeon-in-Chief, NYP/CUIMC Previously: COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/20/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/19/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: 3/18/20 COVID-19 Updates from the Chair: …
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A Personal Update from Dr. Emile Bacha on COVID-19
… in need, looking for our help. The most recent guidelines from the hospital is that only truly life-threatening … and several cardiologists at this point) is very different from what we are used to as cardiac surgeons. It’s exhausting … type of exhaustion than the one we all know too well from operating long hours or managing sick patients, which is …
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