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The Nationwide Search for Effective COVID-19 Treatments: Methodist joins Mayo in searching for successful therapies for COVID-19 patients. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is now participating in Mayo Clinic’s Expanded Access Protocol for Convalescent Plasma Program for treatment of patients with COVID-19. The antibodies in plasma from recovered patients may have the ability to help those infected with coronavirus recover more quickly. Fully recovered COVID-19 patient makes first plasma donation. On April 21, Dr. Daniel Wakefield, a 30-year-old radiation oncology resident in Memphis, became the first fully recovered COVID-19 patient to donate plasma to the program. Wakefield got tested when he developed a cough after working at a COVID-19 testing site in Memphis. Wakefield is now fully recovered and hopes his story will inspire others to donate plasma. You can be a hero too. Plasma from fully recovered COVID-19 patients is incredibly important in the search to find a treatment for COVID-19 patients. To donate, you must be symptom free, be fully recovered for at least 14 days, and have a negative nasal swab test.
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For more information or to find out how you can donate plasma, visit www.methodisthealth.org/plasma.
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Baptist starts Right Care podcast to keep providers informed about COVID-19
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On June 9, Baptist Memorial Health Care aired its Right Care at Baptist podcast to cover timely clinical information on COVID-19 for the medical staff. This weekly conversational update on COVID-19 topics, such as convalescent plasma therapy, ICU management, remdesivir, lab testing and current treatments, has proven to be a convenient way to get pertinent information to providers when the time is right for them to listen.
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“The idea of receiving hits of needed COVID-19 information in a 15-minute format on your drive to the hospital or drive home is vital,” said Dr. Henry Sullivant, vice president and chief medical officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care. “It’s easier for our audience to receive the information on their time-table.”
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These days, providers have travel constraints and distancing rules that prohibit normal meetings and seminars, but they still want the latest information on health care system findings and plans. To accommodate their needs, Dr. Jake Lancaster, vice president and chief medical information officer, suggested the podcast. Dr. Sullivant and Dr. Lancaster co-host the podcast, which attracts guests from across the region to share their knowledge and internal resources.
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Right Care at Baptist is sent to a network of 3,768 physicians and 1,100 advanced practice providers through e-mail and can be found on Spotify and in Apple Podcasts. This has led to the broadening of the podcast’s listening audience, which includes Tennessee and Mississippi, Georgia listeners who rank third, and listeners from Europe and the Philippines have been captured. This method of using a podcast to reach providers has been so successful that the application may eventually address other important issues in the future.
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