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Background: Acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring invasive mechanical ventilation may occur in COVID-19 patients. Barotrauma causes clinically severe pneumothorax, necessitating a chest tube thoracostomy. Acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is aerosolized during the process, hence specific precautions must be taken to minimize exposure risks to health care workers. Objectives: The objective of the study to diagnosis of Tube thoracostomy during the COVID-19 pandemic to detect and diagnose patients who are positive with the virus. Material & Methods: In Bangladesh, researchers from a tertiary care hospital's thoracic surgery section did a retrospective analysis. In total, we had 34 participants. All COVID-19 cases requiring thoracic surgery consultation and management that were admitted to the ICU between July 2020 and January 2022 were included in this study. Iatrogenic pneumothorax and other critical cases not associated with COVID-19 were also eliminated.
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According to ways-to-die website, over 150,000 people die every day. And the most common cause of death, i.e., about 20% of all deaths, is heart diseases. So, the most crucial contribution from our side to lower this percentage can be to monitor the cardiac values as much as possible. There are conventional methods to measure patients' health and condition, but they are laborious;have possibilities of errors;and nocturnal monitoring has as well been very difficult. Moreover, since 2019, COVID19 has caused more than five million deaths all around the world, as stated by WHO. And it made the physical presence of doctors and caretakers almost impossible. So, we have designed an up-to-date IoT-based project that continuously monitors the patient's body temperature, heart-rate and oxygen saturation level;keep the data readings in display before the patient and in the screen of the doctor's mobile;and it also provides a non-touching handsanitizing system. The proposed design integrates NodeMCU, DS18B20 Temperature sensor, Max30100 Pulse-oximeter, and other required materials in a small box. The readings are as accurate as the conventional medical equipments while it just takes less than a minute of time to perform the whole procedure. The developed project has outperformed the conventional method by providing a safer, less complex, cost effective and faster service. © 2022 IEEE.
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The long-term sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are only now beginning to be defined, but it is already known that the disease can have direct and indirect impacts mainly on the cardiorespiratory system. The aim of the narrative review is to derive concepts for the treatment based on the experience gained from the early rehabilitation in the treatment of patients with COVID-19, and to prevent long COVID respiratory complications in connection with currently available sources and experiences. An online literature search was conducted June 2020 to January 2021 using Medline, PubMed, Google scholar and manual search to retrieve meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomized trials, guidelines, recommendations, state of the art, and other peer-reviewed studies investigating the relationship between COVID-19 and early Rehabilitation/mobilization or exercises. Thirty-four articles met the established criteria and the main findings were summarized and described, including indication, contraindication and recommendation for early rehabilitation and exercises prescription. after a detailed observation this review study can predict that long COVID pulmonary complications can be prevented in worth of early rehabilitation.