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How a Zoom forum is changing the way ICU doctors treat desperately ill COVID-19 patients

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How a Zoom forum is changing the way ICU doctors treat desperately ill COVID-19 patients STAT Swamped by overflowing ICUs and the myriad not-seen-before ways the novel coronavirus attacks the body, doctors caring for the pandemic’s sickest patients are scrambling to share their experiences with each other in real time, hoping to find ways to stanch COVID-19's devastating toll. Some 200 physicians from several countries and dozens of states have participated in the Friday Zoom sessions. As cases have surged in new hot spots in the U.S., the calls are providing doctors from Florida to Texas to Arizona fresh from-the-trenches advice on how to use ECMO, a technology that can be lifesaving for some of the most severely ill COVID-19 patients but that has worrisome drawbacks. READ MORE

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