Low-dose aspirin cuts COVID-19 patients’ risk of being admitted to the ICU or dying by nearly HALF

Low-dose aspirin cuts COVID-19 patients’ risk of being admitted to the ICU or dying by nearly HALF, study finds A new study looked at more than 400 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, about 25% of whom were given aspirin upon admission or just before admission Those given the drug were 43% less likely to be admitted to the … Read more

Kate Garraway tells ICU doctor ‘he shouldn’t feel guilty’ for keeping patients away from families

MARCH  2020 Kate revealed she and Prince Charles had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11 – Charles was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-March.   She said: ‘Around the 29/30 March, I came home came in and said [to Derek] ‘god you look ill.’ ‘He said he had a headache, numbness in his right hand, … Read more

NHS workers fell in love without seeing each others faces while working in an ICU

A pair of NHS workers who fell in love after meeting on the ICU have revealed how they used their eyes to communicate over their face masks.     Nurse Ollie Foster, 43, met operating department practitioner Helen Birch, 33, when she was transferred to the same ward at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.  Despite not being able to see each … Read more

Ashley Judd says their was ‘no pulse’ in her shattered leg when she arrived at ICU in South Africa

Ashley Judd gave an update on her recovery on Monday after suffering devastating injuries in an accident in the Congo jungle earlier this month. The 52-year-old actress shattered her leg after tripping over a tree in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while going to see the endangered bonobos monkeys, and got treatment at Sunninghill … Read more

Ashley Judd is in the ICU at South African hospital after shattering her leg during an excursion

Ashley Judd is in the ICU at a South African hospital after shattering her leg during an excursion in the Congo By Sarah Sotoodeh For Dailymail.com Published: 21:38 GMT, 12 February 2021 | Updated: 21:42 GMT, 12 February 2021 Ashley Judd is currently recovering in the ICU at a South African hospital after suffering a … Read more

Couple marry in ICU after both were rushed to hospital with Covid

A couple due to be married that was rushed to hospital with coronavirus after their oxygen levels plummeted to dangerous levels have tied the knot in their Covid ward. Elizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O’Brien, 36, had initially planned to marry each other in June last year, but the coronavirus pandemic cut their plans short. … Read more

Half of ICU staff working on Covid wards suffer mental health difficulties

Half of ICU staff working on Covid wards suffer mental health difficulties and one in FOUR has PTSD, study finds Researchers gave a questionnaire to 709 NHS workers on Covid ICU wads  45% of respondents have a form of mental health difficulty, study found  Most common issue was PTSD, accounting for 40% of mental health cases  Scientist … Read more

Covid UK: Arthritis drugs that cut ICU death risk 24% available now

Boris Johnson tonight hailed two ‘life-saving’ arthritis drugs after a major British trial revealed they cut the risk of death in critically-ill Covid patients by nearly a quarter. The PM — who stumbled several times as he tried to pronounce them — said the anti-inflammatory drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab would be made available through the NHS with immediate … Read more

Two arthritis drugs slash the risk of Covid patients in ICU dying by 24%

Coronavirus patients fighting for their lives in NHS intensive care units will now be given arthritis drugs, after a major trial found two different medications can cut the risk of death by nearly a quarter.  In one of the biggest medical breakthroughs of the pandemic, scientists found that anti-inflammatory drugs tocilizumab and sarilumab can boost the … Read more

Dr Dre is in the ICU after suffering a brain aneurysm

Dr Dre is in the ICU after suffering a brain aneurysm, according to TMZ.  The rapper and record producer who is 55-years-old suffered the aneurysm on Monday and was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, sources told the website.  Doctors say they don’t know what caused the bleeding but are performing a series … Read more