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Burkland Returns as ER Wheeling Hospital Medical Director
Friday, April 17, 2020
Wheeling native Dr. C. David Burkland has returned to Wheeling Hospital as medical director of the Emergency/Trauma Department.Read Burkland Returns as ER Wheeling Hospital Medical Director full story
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WVU-engineered intubation boxes to help reduce risk to clinicians during COVID-19 pandemic
Thursday, April 16, 2020
A global pandemic, a worried wife and a campus that, like its home state, is full of connections, were the impetus for protective devices that were created at West Virginia University and are now being used by a variety of health care professionals at WVU Medicine J. W. Ruby Memorial Hospital. -
Hayanga appointed as Health and Human Services special advisor
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Jeremiah Hayanga, M.D., ECMO program director at the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, has been appointed as a special advisor by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Eric D. Hargan.Read Hayanga appointed as Health and Human Services special advisor full story
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WVU School of Medicine faculty suggests artificial intelligence could be significant tool in treating COVID-19 patients
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Doctors and other health care providers could get some help from artificial intelligence, which could expedite decisions regarding patient care and minimize exposure, saving personal protective equipment, according to Dr. Partho Sengupta, Abnash C. Jain chair and chief of the Division of Cardiology and director of Cardiovascular Imaging at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. -
Intubation boxes help reduce risk to clinicians
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
WVU School of Medicine faculty collaborated with the Statler College of Engineering to create intubation boxes – helping reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission through aerosolized particles, by containing them to the intubation box.Read Intubation boxes help reduce risk to clinicians full story