COVID-19 Frontliners: the Respiratory Therapist
A skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFA skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
Between shifts at San Francisco’s public hospital, physician and podcast host Emily Silverman, MD, collects audio diaries from health workers across the nation.
What’s it like – as a clinician, researcher, student, or hospital staffer – to confront a lethal disease unlike any you’ve seen before? In this special series, professionals across UCSF share first-person accounts of COVID-19 that reveal grit, ingenuity, and resolve in the face of fear.
We asked on social media for alumni to share their pandemic stories. Here’s a selection of submissions that came in from across the country.
Amid the COVID-19 chaos in many hospitals, emergency medicine physicians in seven cities around the country experienced rising levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion, regardless of the intensity of the local surge, according to a new analysis led by UCSF.
Seniors who can identify smells like roses, turpentine, paint-thinner and lemons, and have retained their senses of hearing, vision and touch, may have half the risk of developing dementia as their peers with marked sensory decline, according to a new UCSF study.
David Ramsay, a former UCSF senior vice chancellor and president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) who since 2010 had served as associate director of the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND), died June 18, 2020, after a short illness. He was 81.
Two innovative UCSF projects in hydrogel therapies to develop new salivary glands and restore muscle loss after facial injuries have received critical funding to move closer to clinical trials.
Among a group of 40 health care professionals observed by the study authors, those without masks touched their faces nearly four times as often as those who wore masks, indicating that masks not only are an effective barrier to disease transmission, but also may reduce face-touching, at least among health care professionals.
Goldstein will replace Maureen Brodie, MA, CO-OP, who is retiring. The UCSF Office of the Ombuds provides alternative dispute resolution services for all members of the UCSF community, including faculty, staff, administrators, students, post-doctoral fellows and other trainees.
The researchers determined "medical vulnerability" by referencing indicators identified by the CDC, including heart conditions, diabetes, current asthma, immune conditions (such as lupus, gout, rheumatoid arthritis), liver conditions, obesity and smoking within the previous 30 days. Additionally, the researchers added e-cigarettes to tobacco and cigar use.
As the COVID-19 spreads through America’s overcrowded jails and prisons, researchers with Amend at UCSF are cautioning against using punitive solitary confinement to medically isolate infected people.