Category Archives: Infections

Week one in the COVID ICU

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA

Dr. Kusum Mathews is a pulmonary and critical care physician and researcher at Mt. Sinai in NYC. She staffed the first week of her hospital’s COVID ICU. The week started off with only a few COVID-19 positive patients and escalated … Continue reading →

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Why COVID-19 is a Geriatric Emergency

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA

We are in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The mortality is highest in older adults. Dr. Teresita (Tess) Hogan and a team of Emergency Physicians recently wrote an article on things we should think about as we care … Continue reading →

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Urinary Infections and Catheters in Older Adults

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA

UTIs, UICs, and CAUTIs in older adults! In this episode, Mary Mulcare, EM and geriatric-EM-trained physician in NYC and I discuss how to diagnose UTIs in older adults, and the confounding factors of asymptomatic bacteriuria, sterile pyuria, and colonization. We … Continue reading →

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