Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions

    • Repurposing Existing Medications for Coronavirus Disease 2019: Protocol for a Rapid and Living Systematic Review 

      Geisler, Benjamin P.; Zahabi, Lara; Lang, Adam E.; Eastwood, Naomi; Tennant, Elaine; Lukic, Ljiljan; Sharon, Elad; Chuang, Hai-Hua; Kang, Chang-Berm; Clayton-Johnson, Knakita; Aljaberi, Ahmed; Yu, Haining; Bui, Chinh; Le Mau, Tuan; Li, Wen-Cheng; Teodorescu, Debbie; Hinske, Ludwig Christian; Sun, Dennis L.; Manian, Farrin A.; Dunn, Adam G.
      Published 2020
      Background: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has no known specific treatments. However, there might be in vitro and early clinical data as well as evidence from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and Middle Eastern ...
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    • Position Statement on the Management of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices in Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Living Document 

      Kumar, Saurabh; Haqqani, Haris; Wynn, Gareth; Pathak, Rajeev K.; Lipton, Jonathan; Mahajan, Rajiv; Sanders, Prashanthan; Healey, Stewart; Wilsmore, Bradley; Mariani, Justin A.; Thomas, Stuart P.; Weerasooriya, Rukshen; McGavigan, Andrew; Gould, Paul A.; Weatherley, Paul; Saad, Natasha; Cowan, Mitchell; Turnbull, Samual; Trivic, Ivana; Wong, Michael; Tonchev, Ivaylo; Morton, Joseph B.; Skinner, Jonathan R.; Pflaumer, Andreas; McGuire, Mark; Kistler, Peter; Kalman, Jonathan M.
      Published 2020
      The COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant stress on health resources in Australia. The Heart Rhythm Council of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand aims to provide a framework for efficient resource utilisation ...
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    • Frailty in the Face of COVID-19 

      Hubbard, Ruth E; Maier, Andrea B; Hilmer, Sarah N; Naganathan, Vasi; Etherton-Beer, Christopher; Rockwood, Kenneth
      Published 2020
      The Clinical Frailty Scale is a quick and reliable screening tool for frailty. While the CFS has value in allocation of scarce health resources, it also has limitations. Frailty is a continuum rather than a dichotomous ...
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    • Evaluation of Ten Years Of Parainfluenza virus, human Metapneumovirus And Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections In Lung Transplant Recipients 

      de Zwart, Auke E.S.; Riezebos‐Brilman, Annelies; Alffenaar, Jan?Willem C.; van den Heuvel, Edwin R.; Gan, C.T.; van der Bij, Wim; Kerstjens, Huib A.M.; Verschuuren, Erik A.M.
      Published 2020
      Respiratory tract infection with Pneumoviruses (PV) and Paramyxoviruses (PMV) are increasingly associated with chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) in lung transplant recipients (LTR). Ribavirin may be a treatment ...
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    • Global coordination on cross-border travel and trade measures crucial to COVID-19 response 

      Lee, Kelley; Worsnop, Catherine Z; Grépin, Karen A; Kamradt-Scott, Adam
      Published 2020
      When WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on Jan 30, 2020, under the provisions of the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), it recommended against “any ...
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